The
mystic aura of India and the enigma that she is has captured the imagination and
fancy of great minds. Take a look at what they have to say about India.
"Where
the mind is without fear
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is
free;
Where the world has not been
broken up into fragments by
narrow
domestic walls;
Where words come out from
the depth of truth;
Where
tireless striving stretches
its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear
stream of reason
has not lost its way into the dreary
desert sand of dead
habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee
into ever-widening thought
and action-
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake."
"GEETANJALI" -Rabindranath Tagore
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile
scientific discovery could have been made.
-Albert Einstein
If
I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its
choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and
has found solutions, I should point to India.
-
Max Mueller (German scholar)
Mark
Twain said: India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech,
the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of
tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of
man are treasured up in India only.
French
scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where
all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when
man began the dream of existence, it is India.
The
land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendour
and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine and pestilence, of genii and giants
and Aladdin lamps, of tigers and elephants, the cobra and the jungle, the country
of hundred nations and a hundred tongues, of a thousand religions and two million
gods, cradle of the human race, birthplace of human speech, mother of history,
grandmother of legend, great-grandmother of traditions, whose yesterday's bear
date with the modering antiquities for the rest of nations-the one sole country
under the sun that is endowed with an imperishable interest for alien prince and
alien peasant, for lettered and ignorant, wise and fool, rich and poor, bond and
free, the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a
glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all the rest of the world
combined.
- Mark Twain
When
I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything
else seems so superfluous.
- Albert Einstein
India
- The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas
for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity,
radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
-
Wheeler Wilcox (American poet)
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