The Krishna Key Quotes

“Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“You are spot-on,’ remarked Saini. ‘Prior to the advent of Islam, the word Allah had already existed. It was derived from two Arabic words, al—meaning “the”, and ilah—meaning “deity”. Over a period of time, the combined phrase al-ilah came to be pronounced as Allah.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“Our collective energies make miracles happen, not the stone idol.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“By simply believing that their lives could be transformed, they succeeded in converting their thoughts into reality.’ It”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“history is simply a version of events that can be easily influenced by the political, cultural and religious leanings of those who write it.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“Lack of evidence does not imply lack of existence. In 1610 there was no evidence of the sun being at the centre of the solar system. Five years later, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo for proposing such a preposterous theory. Did it mean that the solar system, as we know it today, did not exist? A few hundred years is all that it takes to accept new evidence. In the search for a historical Krishna, we are exactly where Galileo was in 1610-on the brink of a major discovery that the rest of the world has not yet accepted.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“Ghazni went down in history as the most hated looter to reach Somnath. He was fanatical about destroying the Shiv lingam. Mahmud personally took on the task of smashing the temple’s lingam to smithereens. The stone fragments from the lingam were transported back by him to Ghazni. These fragments were scattered upon the steps leading to the city’s Jamiah Masjid—a new mosque that was under construction. The idea was to ensure that the feet of worshippers at the mosque would tread all over the lingam’s fragments as they entered the mosque.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“Modern scientists now believe that there are seven broad forms of energy—mechanical, heat, chemical, radiant, electrical, sound, and nuclear. It is my reasoned guess that the ancient yogis knew this. They also knew that each of these could be broken into seven constituent elements! It’s impossible to understand how they knew this, but they did. Even their most important and exalted river—the Sarasvati—was part of the Saptasindhu, the seven rivers. Vedic knowledge was derived from the Saptarishi—the seven sages. Even Dwarka was the embodiment of Saptadweep—the seven islands.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“When jumbled up, the letters contained in the name Taarak Vakil now spelt out a name that every theologian in India would be familiar with. Kalki avatar—the tenth incarnation of Vishnu.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“dhumaketum iva kim api karalam”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“good lawyers know the law and that great lawyers know the judge?”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“The French philosopher Voltaire was the one who vehemently declared, “Pythagoras went to the Ganges to learn geometry.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key

“No one called me Krishna in Gokul. I was lovingly called Kanhaiya or Kanha—the adolescent—by the village folk. My pranks and naughtiness were a frequent topic of discussion. My insatiable appetite for butter earned me the title of ‘Maakhan Chor’ in the village.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, The Krishna Key