Swami Achuthananda > Quotes

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – Alvin Toffler (1928–)”
― Swami Achuthananda, Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism: Culture, Concepts, Controversies

“You and I live in a society that is so short on time and long on comfort that we have become too busy to notice we’re busy. Trading our time for material possessions and personal freedom, we know our time on this planet is limited, yet we continue to live as if we are going to last an eternity.”
― Swami Achuthananda, Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism: Culture, Concepts, Controversies

“Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. – Soren Kierkegaard”
― Swami Achuthananda, Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism: Culture, Concepts, Controversies

“Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. – Soren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish Philosopher and Theologian”
― Swami Achuthananda, Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism: Culture, Concepts, Controversies

“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five. – Benjamin Franklin”
― Swami Achuthananda, Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism: Culture, Concepts, Controversies

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
― Swami Achuthananda, Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism: Culture, Concepts, Controversies

“A million men can tell a woman she is beautiful, but the only time she will listen is when it’s said by the man she loves. —ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR, 1960-”
― Swami Achuthananda, The Reign of the Vedic Gods

“In the poem “The Blind Men and the Elephant,” American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) relates the fable of six men of Indostan who went to see an elephant, though all of them were blind. Those who haven’t read the poem will learn that the first blind man felt the broad side of the elephant and thought the elephant “to be very like a wall.” The second, feeling the tusk, cried out, “No, the elephant is like a spear.” Holding the squirming trunk with both hands, the third said, “You are both wrong. The elephant is like a snake.” The fourth blind man, feeling the elephant’s knee, declared, “Fools, the elephant is clearly like a tree.” Caressing the ear, the fifth said, “Did you say tree? The elephant resembles most like a fan.” Surprised at all these, the sixth man, seizing the swinging tail, said, “Are you all crazy? Anyone can see the elephant is like a rope.” Like the blind men, people have formed their own perspective on Hinduism from their experience. While some say it is a mystic religion with endless contradictions, others declare Hinduism is about karma and cycles of reincarnation. “Hinduism has millions of gods, many with multiple limbs.”
― Swami Achuthananda, Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism: Culture, Concepts, Controversies