Quotes from On Hinduism — Ram Swarup
1920–1998 India
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In Western thought, the body holds the soul; in Indian thought, the soul holds the body.
On Hinduism (2000)
Time Must Have A Stop, which belongs to this period, is probably his best novel and certainly the one which, as he himself says, he "most enjoyed doing".
On Hinduism (2000)
He only quotes from Rabia, Bayazid, Abu Sa'id and Rumi who do not properly represent even the sufi silsilas, the mainstream Islamic Sufism.
On Hinduism (2000)
As it saw in the Self all Godly attributes, it saw in Gods the truth and powers of the Self; indeed, it taught that one who worships a God as other than himself becomes his sacrificial animal, his draught-animal. He is driven and ridden by him.
On Hinduism (2000)
Therefore, he developed an ethical theory which had room both for instincts as well as the intellect. He said that man is not one but multiple; He is not one self, but a colony of selves. He must live all his selves and all his parts, and live them not moderately but fully.
On Hinduism (2000)