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Robert Charles Zaehner
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“In the family of religions, Hinduism is the wise old all-knowing mother. Its sacred books, the Vedas, claim, 'Truth is one, but sages call it by different names.' If only Islam, and all the rest of the monotheistic 'book' religions, had learned that lesson, all the horror of history's religious wars could have been avoided. Which other religion has its God say, as Krishna does in the Bhagavad Gita, 'All paths lead to me.'”
Robert Charles Zaehner (1913–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert R. C. Zaehner in also Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
“If only the Church had the sense to allow so many different and seemingly contradictory approaches to God, how much saner its history would have been!”
Robert Charles Zaehner (1913–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert R. C. Zaehner, . also Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
“It was the sublime ancient tolerance of Hinduism that he often stressed, that was the true proof of the wisdom and mature dignity of the Hindu tradition.”
Robert Charles Zaehner (1913–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He also observed that all traditional poems and meditations and philosophical texts of Hinduism are "different-shaped peaks in one vast, grand, interconnected mountain chain, like the Himalayas.”
Robert Charles Zaehner (1913–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harvey, Andrew Teachings of the Hindu Mystics Shambala Press Boston. 2001 p. xv - xviii As Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India …