Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes

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Religion is not a movement stretching out to grasp something, external, tangible, and good, and to possess it. It is a form of being, not having, a mode of life. Spiritual life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. It is new birth into enlightenment.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan