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“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”

Years Art States Able Christ Perfect Healing Lord Five Influence Hundred India Ancient Efficient Physicians Surgery Abolish Present Day Ancient India Lord Buddha

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.”

World Giving Stories Spiritual Joy Secret Lord Talent Security Return Resources Ears India Asking One Word

Book:Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II

Source: Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II

“Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as a reformer of not only Hinduism but also the world, who has given all of us a new world view and vision which is critical for the survival of all of us and the entire world.”

World Philosophy Motivation Given Views Vision Lord Teaching Survival India Critical New World Hinduism Advent World View Reformers Beneficiaries Lord Buddha

Author:Narendra Modi

“Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the world was Lord Buddha, the epitome of knowledge, peace and compassion.”

World Years Compassion Lord Land Enlightenment Years Ago Empowerment India Siddhartha Epitome Lord Buddha

Author:Narendra Modi

“I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy.”

Political Understanding Lord Roles Century Empathy Empowerment India Tolerance Ideology Bridges Borders 21st Century Enlightening Political Ideology National Borders Lord Buddha

Author:Narendra Modi

“I see Lord Buddha doing to our collective spiritual well-being what global trade did to our collective economic well-being and the digital internet did to our collective intellectual well-being.”

Wells Spiritual Lord Economic Internet Intellectual India Innovation Trade Well Being Collectives Digital Lord Buddha

Author:Narendra Modi

“Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.”

People Thinking Way Shows Night Poor Lord Poverty Millions Praying India Saint Philosopher Tyranny Crafts Priests Physicians Day And Night Incessantly Downtrodden

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna played his flute for the cows of Vrindavan. There are factory farms in India now.”

Years May Has Beens Lord Changed Yoga India Sacred Farms Factories Cows Krishna Flutes Times Have Changed Lord Krishna

Author:Sharon Gannon

“India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.”

People Stills War Facts Helping Seems Able Lord India Independent Population Aids Indian Governors Pakistan Bothered Kashmir

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.”

Source: What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67

“Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals”

Years Long Soul Hands Lasts Given Born Lord Kings Thousand India Saint Expected Thousand Years Prophecy Incarnation Dharma Advent Horde Great Souls Year One Maharashtra

Author:Swami Vivekananda