Famous Indians on Lord Buddha

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Quotes on Buddha

In this word of storm and strife, hatred and violence, the message

of Buddha shines like a radiant sun. Perhaps at no time was that

message more needed than in the world of the atomic and hydrogen

bombs. Two thousand five hundred years have only added to the

vitality and truth of that message. Let us remember that immortal

message and try to fashion out our thoughts and actions in the light

of that teaching. We may face with equanimity even the terrors of

the atomic bomb age and help a little in promoting right thinking

and right action.

 

 

- Jawaharlal Nehru

The Discovery of India

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because be wanted to share

with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who

sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth. Buddha emphasised

and re-declared the eternal an unalterable existence of the moral

government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was

God Himself.

 

 

- Mahatma Gandhi

Epigrams

To help the suffering world was the gigantic task to which Buddha

gave prominence, brushing aside for the time being almost all other

phases of religion; yet he had to spend years in self-searching, to

realise the great truth of the utter hollowness of clinging to a

selfish individuality. A more unselfish and untiring worker is

beyond our sanguine imagination, yet, who had harder struggles to

realise the meaning of things, than he? It holds good in all times

that the greater the work, the more must have been the power of

realisation behind.

 

 

- Swami Vivekananda

We find in Gautama the Buddha, in powerful combination, spiritual

profoundity, moral strength of the highest order and a discreet

intellectual reserve. He is one of those rare spirits who bring to

men a realisation of their own divinity and make the spiritual life

seem adventurous and attractive, so that they may go forth into the

world with a new interest and a new joy at heart.

 

 

- S Radhakrishnana

The Dhammapada