Sunil Kumar > Sunil's Quotes

“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom, really?”
― Sunil Kumar

“Every page turned is a new horizon discovered, where stories become bridges to worlds unknown and hearts uncharted.”
― Sunil Kumar

“Every page turned is a new horizon discovered, where stories become bridges to worlds unknown and hearts uncharted.”
― Sunil Kumar

“Every page turned is a new horizon discovered, where stories become bridges to worlds unknown and hearts uncharted.”
― Sunil Kumar

“निःशब्दं वनम्।
अन्तः पावनं मनः।
शान्तिः सर्वदा॥

My Sanskrit haiku on silence”
― Sunil Kumar

“Buddha himself is reported to have remarked that he has propounded the doctrines which are ekamsika(one sided) and anekamasikas(many-sided). Matilal says that the word was probably another name for anekanta and could be taken as a precursor of the Jaina Anekanta doctrine”
― Radhavallabh Tripathi, Vada in Theory and Practice

“God always keeps for himself a chosen country in which the higher knowledge is through all chances and dangers, by the few or many, continually preserved, and for the present, that country is India.”
― Sri Aurobindo

“I should like to caution you agains the perils of an exercise marked by an exchange of verbiage even in poetic language. But, in international relations, soft words butter no parsnips any more than harsh words break any bones. Ad-hocism and dilletantism are fraught with grave consequences.”
― PN Haksar

“Neville Maxwell is beyond redemption..My own view is that Neville faithfully reflects the poisonous sources of his information who are mostly our own counterparts”
― PN Haksar

“I have also a feeling that despite my deepest respect for the life and work of Jawaharlal Nehru, it was a grave error to codify Hindu laws instead of having a uniform civil code. If we have one criminal law for all the citizens of the Republic of India and one law in respect of Income Tax, transfer of property etc.., there is no reason to have separate codes for the Hindus and the Muslims,. All these distortions are the products of our not being able to think clearly about our past, present and future”
― PN Haksar

“However, it is too much to expect that our politicians as a class possess either a feeling for history or a sense of history. They do not even ask the basic question of historiography, namely, how and why things have happened as they did.”
― PN Haksar

“Our entire educational system is a mere linear expansion of Lord Macaulay's design for us Natives.

If India survives today, it is because millions upon millions of people sustain themselves by their values inherited through cultural manifestation contained in our songs, in our dances and in our proverbs.”
― PN Haksar

“duniyaa me.n huu.n duniyaa kaa talabgaar nahii.n huu.n
baazaar se guzraa huu.n KHariidaar nahii.n huu.n”
― Akbar Allahabadi

“aashiqii sabr-talab aur tamannaa betaab
dil kaa kyaa rang karuu.n KHuun-e-jigar hote tak”
― Mirza Ghalib

“daaG duniyaa ne diye zaKHm zamaane se mile
ham ko tohfe ye tumhe.n dost banaane se mile”
― Kaif Bhopali

“hayaa nahii.n hai zamaane kii aa.nkh me.n baaqii
KHudaa kare ki javaanii tirii rahe be-daaG”
― Allama Iqbal

“There is nowhere you can be that isn't where you were meant to be”
― John Lennon

“The great erotic sculptures of Khajuraho are not depictions of life but emblems of the union of Shiv(a) and his Shakti, which result in the creation of all that is. The tourist is titillated by the linga that he sees around temples; his guide who is likely to be a divinity student, tirelessly repeats that they are emblems of universality, but his earnest insistence falls on deaf ears. The tourist assumes that the Hindus are as lecherous as he is.”
― Germaine Greer

“From Ramakrishna to the 'brown boy, Gandhi' , threatening Indian icons stand 'effeminized' and turned into 'intimate' enemies' reinforcing the ambiguities and ambivalences of the postcolonial purloined self.”
― Renuka Sharma

“The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms forever in the Light above.”
― Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga

“This project - of placing the West's pathologies, exotica, weirdness, self-images of greatness and peculiar guilt and other complexes- is what I have previously called "Westology", and have called for such a discipline to run parallel to Indology.”
― Rajiv Malhotra, Academic Hinduphobia: A critique of Wendy Doniger's erotic school of Indology

“1. Money cannot buy happiness but it is more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle.
2. Forgive your enemy but remember the bastard's name
3. Help someone when they are in trouble and they will remember you when they're in trouble again.
4. Many people are alive only because it's illegal to shoot them.
5. Alcohol does not solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk.
- Cowboy humour”
― John Wayne

“The lesson of history is that no one learns”
― Steven Erikson

“Virtually every fact used in business, political life and every day human relations is derived from other 'facts' or assumptions that have been shaped, deliberately or not, by the preexisting power structure. Every fact thus has a power history and what may be called a power future.”
― Alvin Toffler, Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

“Religion, the common inheritance, the universal birthright of the race, must be brought free to the door of everybody,”
― Swami Vivekananda

“To take Christianity as an example, biblical scholars, using a sophisticated hermeneutics, extract a 'universal' Pauline theology from the social context of Paul's letters that presumed slavery, the subjugation of women, etc. Pauline statements that seem to support this social order are reinterpreted in light of passages that are deemed to reflect more universal values”
― dave freedholm

“abhii kuchh aur tirii justujuu rulaa.egii
abhii kuchh aur bhaTaknaa hai dar-ba-dar mujh ko..There is no end to the desire of seeing the beloved(spirituality can also be retrofitted). The poet wanders around, from one street to another, hoping that he’d find her/him. At the same time, he is convinced that he will never succeed in his quest of beloved.”
― Ajeet Singh Hasrat

“pas-e-parda bahut be-pardagii hai
bahut bezaar hai kirdaar apnaa

As on a stage, when the curtain is lifted all appears to be in order. However, things are disordered behind the curtain before the play begins. The poet compares his displeased self with that disorder which is invisible to the world. )”
― Naeem Raza Bhatti

“hai meraa chehra saika.Do.n chehro.n kaa aa.iina
bezaar ho gayaa huu.n tamaashaa.iyo.n se mai.n
The poet/lover is sick of the day-to-day life and is not participating in it anymore. Now, his face is like a mirror in which spectators (everybody) see their own reflection.”
― Ahmed Ziya

“I want to see the muscles of iron, and heart and veins of steel because within them the mind which is made of lightning and thunderbolts dwells. From the combination of strength, courage, the virility of a warrior, the brilliance of Brahman the new humanity of India should be created”
― Swami Vivekananda