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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism, Instinct
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.186, Tara Publishing

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Hinduism, Untouchability
Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi (1932). “The Epic Fast”

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi
Cows, Hinduism, Preservation

Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.

Mahatma Gandhi
Substance, Way, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi (1972). “Collected Works”

Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

Mahatma Gandhi
Temples, Hinduism, Appeals
Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism, Untouchability, Ifs
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism, Duty, Castes
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
World, Messages, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism, Untouchability, Died
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.268, Tara Publishing

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism, Modern, Untouchability
Gandhi (Mahatma) (1924). “Collected works”

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

Mahatma Gandhi
Brotherhood, Hinduism, Mankind
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.

Mahatma Gandhi
Bullets, Hinduism, Latter
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Influence, Hinduism, Poor

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism, Idolatry, Ideals
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hatred, Islam, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism, Untouchability, Purification

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi
Penance, Hinduism, Untouchability
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

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Growth, Morbid, Hinduism

Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society.

Mahatma Gandhi
Dining, Hinduism, Restriction
Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

Mahatma Gandhi
Jinnah, Slave, Hinduism

The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi
Scripture, Study, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Vedas, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

Mahatma Gandhi
World, Hinduism, Exclusive
Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

Mahatma Gandhi
Spirit, Conservative, Hinduism
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.127, Courier Corporation