Thousand More Hindu Quotations For Speakers And Students

By London Swaminathan

This is my second volume of 1000 more quotations mostly from Hindu scriptures. This is a Book of Quotations with a difference. I have included books from Sanskrit and Tamil languages. Most of the quotation books sold in India have more foreign quotations than Hindu quotes. It is very rare to see Kalidasa or Tamil Tiru Valluvar in such books. I have given quotations from Panchatantra, Hitopadesa, Kalhana’s Raja Tarangini, Tamil poet Bharati, Sikh Gurus, Manu and Sanskrit dramas. The date of first posting in my blogs and the serial number are in all the posts. Last but not the least, I have divided them topic wise or subject wise.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
• Release date: Apr 29, 2023
• ISBN: 6580553509740

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Contents

Foreword

1. Vedic Poet Medhathithi’s Quotations

2. QUOTES FROM THE RIG VEDA

3. Thirty-one more Quotations from the Pancha Tantra

4. Thirty more Golden Sayings from Panchatantra

5. Beautiful Quotations from the Panchatantra!

6. MORE QUOTATIONS FROM PANCHATANTRA

7. Rules about Dhana / Charity in Hindu Literature

8. Thirty-one Quotations from the Rig Veda

9. Hitopadesam quotes

10. Quotes on Worldly Wisdom

11. More Quotations on Worldly Wisdom

12. Don’t Tell me Your Name 5 Names shouldn’t be Revealed

13. Our Five Fathers, Five Mothers and Five Teachers!

14. Classification of Women according to Age

15. Five Characteristics of a Fool

16. Botanical Information under No 5

17. Giving Food is the Greatest Charity

18. Buddha, Zoroaster and Mohamed on Workers

19. QUOTATIONS ON LOVE

20. QUOTATIONS FROM KALHANA

21. Quotations on Wealth & Goddess of Wealth

22. Thirty Important quotations from Manu

23. Beautiful Quotes on Truth!

24. Thirty Sanskrit Quotes on Truth (Satyam)

25. QUOTES FROM GURU NANAK

26. QUOTES ON MANLINESS & COURAGE

27. Quotations on Gambling: From Rig Veda to Tirukkural

28. Quotes from Guru Govinda Simhan

29. Kanchi Shankaracharya’s Golden Sayings

30. Quotations on Good Conduct and Discipline

31. QUOTES ON FAMOUS GRAMMARIAN PANINI

32. Six Types of Laughter! Tamil and Sanskrit Quotations on Laughter!

33.Father in Sanskrit and Tamil Literature

34.Win Anger by Serenity

35. Beautiful Quotations on Bharati

36. Quotes from the Greatest Tamil Poet Bharati

37. Sanskrit Sayings from Sanskrit Dramas

38. Quotations on Wealth and Fortune

39. QUOTATIONS ON TAPAS / PENANCE

40. Quotations on Patience & Forbearance

41. TYPES OF FRIENDS

42. Quotations of Friendship

Foreword

This is my second volume of 1000 more quotations mostly from Hindu scriptures. This is a Book of Quotations with a difference. I have selected over one thousand quotations mainly from Hindu scriptures. I have included books from Sanskrit and Tamil languages. But there may be quotations from other languages if they are translated into Tamil or English. From 2014, I posted these quotations in my monthly Good Thoughts Calendars, both in Tamil and English. That means there were at least 365 quotations in Tamil and 365 quotations in English every year. We don’t find many quotations from Vedas or from Tamil books like Tirukkural in other quotation books. Even if they are found, they don’t have the precise details such as from what chapter or what number of verses etc they are taken.

Most of the quotation books sold in India have more foreign quotations than Hindu quotes. It is very rare to see Kalidasa or Tamil Tiruvalluvar in such books. I have given quotations from Panchatantra, Hitopadesa, Kalhana’s Raja Tarangini, Tamil poet Bharati, Sikh Gurus, Manu and Sanskrit dramas. The date of first posting in my blogs and the serial number are in all the posts. Last but not the least, I have divided them topic wise or subject wise. Both my first volume and second volume of quotations will be very useful to writers, speakers and the students. Your comments are welcome. Enjoy reading.

London Swaminathan

January 2023

1. Vedic Poet Medhathithi’s Quotations

Post No: 1056; Dated 21st May, 2014.

Rig Veda, the oldest religious scripture in the world, is full of mysteries. Even the foreign scholars who tried to translate the hymns very often added in the foot note, the meaning is not clear, the meaning is obscure etc. Some deliberately misinterpreted the hymns to suit their fanciful Aryan-Dravidian Race theories and sex fantasies. One must always read what Indian saints like Shankaracharya, Dayananda Saraswati, Sayana and Bhatta Baskara say about Vedas. We must respect our mother, father, Guru and what they have believed in the past thousands of years. The Vedic sages said they love to speak in mysterious language. Some hymns may be allegorical, some may be symbolic, some may be open statements and others may be in coded language.

The hymns 12 to 23 in the First Mandala are ascribed to sage Medhathithi, Son of Kanva. Following are some of the quotations from his hymns:

1. Fire kindles fire and so does poetry, youth and home life (RV 1-12-6 & 1-14-7)

2. The Valiant perishes not (1-18-4)

3. He is longing to send fortune to those who deserve (1-17-6)

4. The works of Gods are mysterious (1-18-6)

5. Not verily is there a God nor a man to know all your great wisdom and deeds. Supreme is your glory (1-19-2)

6. Noble causes on which wealth may be spent (1-17-6)

7. Fight against sin, ignorance, illness (1-18-2)

8. Ribhus: young and elderly (matured), who have truth in their thoughts and straight forwardness in their actions (1-20-4)

9. Asvins: Beautiful combination of honey and truth (1-22-3)

(This reminds us of Truth and Beauty sung by Keats and Sweetness and Light sung by Mathew Arnold; also, Satyam, Sivam, Sundaram by Hindi poet Jai Shankar Prasad, great poet of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore; and in the recent days propagated by Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

Source: Rig Veda, A Scientific and Intellectual Analysis of the Hymns by Dr J.K. Trikha.

Manu even went to the extent of saying Vedas contain that was needed in the past, and for present and future. We have to wait for a great intellectual a new Adi Shankara to tell us what is going to happen in future with the help of the Vedas.

2. QUOTES FROM THE RIG VEDA

JULY 2021 ‘GOOD THOUGHTS’ CALENDAR

Post No. 9793

Date uploaded in London - 29 JUNE 2021

1. Agni, you are the friend and protector of those who entertain you duly 4-4-10

2. Agni, rise again, drive off those who fight against us; destroy our foes whether our own relatives or stranger 4-4-5

3. Agni, your rays preserved blind Mamateya / Dirgatamas from affliction 4-4-13

4. Sharp pointed, powerful, strong, of boundless vigour, Agni who knows the lofty hymn, kept secret 4-5-3

5. What is our best course in this secret passage; we unreproached have reached a place for distant 4-5-12

6. Agni, all these wise secret speeches I have uttered, sung to you, Sage, the charming words of wisdom with my thoughts and praises 4-3-16

7. The bird protects earth’s best and well-loved station 4-5-9

8. Though the cow is black, she gives the nutrias brightly shining milk that supports (human beings) 4-3-9

9. By Law the Angi rases cleft the rock asunder, and ang their hymns together with the cattle.

10. By Law the Immortal Goddesses the rivers flow onward swiftly and for every 4-3-12

11. As in the days of old our ancient Fathers, speeding the work of holy worship, Agni.

12. Sought pure light and devotion, singing praises; they cleft the ground and made red Dawns apparent 4-2-16

13. Gods, doing holy acts, devout, resplendent, smelting like ore their human generations (they burn their sins by holy acts) 4-2-17

14. Destroy the miserliness in us. Come here, for we have shown you favour 3-58-2

15. Never ever go to the feast of one who harms us, the treacherous neighbour or unworthy kinsman 4-3-13

16. This shrine we have made ready for you like a loving wife attire her for her husband 4-3-2

17. Here did our human fathers take their places, fain to fulfil the sacred Law of worship.

18. Forth drove they, with loud call, Dawn’s teeming Milch kine hid in the mountain- stable, in the cavern 4-1-13

19. Eager with thought intent upon the booty, the men with their celestial speech threw open.

20. The solid mountain firm, compact, enclosing confining Cows, the stable full of cattle 4-1-15

21. Lead us to God, to wealth and noble off spring; keep penury afar and grant us plenty 4-2-11

22. The man who, sweating, brings you the fuel, and gets head ache, your faithful servant.

23. Agni, be his strong protector; guard him from all mischief makers 4-2-6

24. Agni, Ruler of men, you joyous God, bring treasure splendid and plentiful to aid the toiler 4-2-13

25. Splendid were they when they had rent the mountain; others around, shall tell forth this their exploit.

26. They sang their song, prepared to free the cattle; they found the light; with holy hymns they worshipped 4-1-14

27. They sang their song, prepared to free the cattle;