Best Brahmins Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ancient India gave to to the world its religions and philosophies: Egypt and Greece owe India their wisdom and it is known that Pythagoras went to India to study under Brahmins, who were the most enlightened of human beings.”

Egypt Greece Brahmins Ancient India Greatness Of India Pythagoras Enlightened Men

Author:Pierre Sonnerat

“There is one thing that unites India, Hate for Brahmins.”

Hate Social India Divided Brahmins Civil Anupamism

Author:Anupam S Shlok

“I was born a Brahmin, but I'm not a Brahmin”

Born Brahmins

Author:Rudrangshu Mukherjee

“Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.”

“Hail, blest Confusion! here are met All tongues, and times, and faces; The Lancers flirt with Juliet, The Brahmin talks of races.”

Faces Race Mets Tongue Confusion Flirting Juliet Hail Brahmins

Book:The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Source: The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“We have seen that though Cristna was said to have left many sons, he left his immense empire, which extended from the sources of the Indus to Cape Comorin, (for we find a Regio Pandionis near this point,) to his daughter Pandæa; but, from finding the icon of Buddha so constantly shaded with the nine Cobras, &c., I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins.”

Thinking Said Left Son Source Findings Daughter Nine Doctrine Buddhist Empires Immense Icons Capes Cobras Brahmins

Book:Anacalypsis

Source: Anacalypsis

“The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.”

People Should Self Artist Birth Habit Deliberate Distinguished Initiation Brahmins

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.”

Language English Language Englishmen Brahmins

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“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.”

Feels Study Convinced Scripture Hinduism Untouchability Brahmins

Book:None High: None Low

Source: None High: None Low

“Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Artist Wish Common Taste Musician Music Is Ordinary Give Me Mark Breathe Native Hats Tall Worn Common Man Castes I Like Him Brahmins

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.”

Should Humans Long Lasts Suffering Water Born Lines Pure Sticks Human Life Brahmins

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.”

People Thinking Littles Has Beens Matter Care Christian Space Streets Building Cost Areas Distinction Touched Urban Just Live Castes Nobody Cares Urban Areas Brahmins

Author:Anita Rau Badami

“And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether you’re from Bombay or Mumbai or New York. All they know is that you’re trying to get to the city of gold, and that’s enough. Come on board, they say. We’ll adjust.”

Ifs Knows Trying Enough Moments Hands Christian Born Cities Morning New York Gold Contact Hills Boards Reaching Untouchables Bombay Mumbai Brahmins

Author:Suketu Mehta

“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.”

Men Life Dies Born Hell Solitude Consequence Karma Supreme Good And Bad Being Alone Wise Man Once Said Abode Brahman Bad Karma Good Karma Brahmins Born Alone Dying Alone Alone Man

Author:Chanakya

“The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.”

Book Reading Water Rain Presses Deeds Smallest Can Not Predictions Good Deeds Drop Of Water Brahmins

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."”

Said Buddhism Blessed Saint Buddhist Awake Magician Brahmins

Author:Gautama Buddha

“By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.”

Men Done Three Evil Holy Deeds Buddhist Guarded Holy Man Brahmins

Author:Gautama Buddha

“(The real brahmin is the one who:) ... has crossed beyond duality ...knows no this shore, other shore, or both ...(is) settled in mind ... without inflowing thoughts ...is without attachment ...endures undisturbed criticism, ill-treatment and bonds, (and is) strong in patience ...(is) without anger, devout, upright, free from craving, disciplined and in his last body ...has experienced the end of his suffering here in this life, who has set down the burden, freed!”

Knows Mind Real Ends Body Lasts Suffering Strong Criticism Endure Ill Burden Buddhist This Life Treatment Attachment Shore Craving Duality Brahmins Ill Treatment

Author:Gautama Buddha

“My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.”

Men Spending Ancestor Brahmins

Author:Muhammad Iqbal

“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."”

Knows Men World Whole Certain Simple Existence Clear Pieces Wise Tradition Sacred West East This Life Priests Formulas Hinduism Glances Mystic Brahmins Above And Below

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations of comfort or convenience to stand in his way. His most outstanding characteristic is his objectivity, his ability to rise above the dust of the arena, to resist the hypnotising effects of words and the blind passion of cults, political or religious.”

“Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.”

People Men Children Sin Grace Player Dying Eternal Judgement Carrie Old Man Eternal Life Dice Small Child Robbers Brahmins

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.”

Ifs Needs Teacher Son Ten Brahmins

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for some less - the weaker should be given more chance than the strong. In other words, a Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. For greater help must be given to him whom nature has not endowed with an acute intellect from birth. It is a madman who carries coals to Newcastle. The poor, the downtrodden, the ignorant, let these be your God.”

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.”

Men Matter Philosophy Individual Hinduism Creeds Lowest Castes Brahmins

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, "I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother." Say, "The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother."”

Art Poor Brother Proud Ignorant Indian My Brother Be Proud Destitute Pariahs Brahmins

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.”

Want Two Plans Ideals Institutions Everyday Saint Practicals Sinner Sage Calcutta Pariahs Practical Life Brahmins Madras

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)”

Ifs Men Mean Wanted House He Man Glad Disciple Pariahs Brahmins

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes, welcome. Then, when we come up to this love, all crooked things shall be straight. There will be the same sight for the Brahmin, the Pariah, and the dog. Until we love the universe with samesightedness, with impartial, undying love, we are missing again and again. But then all will have vanished, and we shall see in all the same infinite eternal Mother.”

Ifs Giving Self Able Lasts Mother Universe Dog Missing Eternal Sight Infinite Misery Come Up Surrender Welcome Again And Again Crooked Pariahs Brahmins Undying Love

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!”

Ifs Has Beens Found Practice Feet Holy Worship Blessed Despite Dust Orthodox Idolatry Entrances Vogue Iniquity Idol Worship Brahmins

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.”

Ifs Way Kind Spiritual Community Differences Habit Eating India Rounds Extremes Violent Vegetarian Vegetarianism Non Violent Vegetarian Food Brahmins

Author:Rajneesh

“The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.”

Made Jew East Distinction Curtains Boston Lace Brahmins

Book:Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

“He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.”

World Ends Existence Lord Knowing Self Realization Oneness Planes Hereafter Beginnings And Ends Brahmins

Book:The Bhagavad Gita: God talks with Arjuna : royal science of God realization

Source: The Bhagavad Gita: God talks with Arjuna : royal science of God realization

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