Dear Readers,
Read the famous quotes on our motherland Bharat (India) to know why the eminent personalities of the world (scholars, scientists, historian, author, surgeon etc) love and respect India.
Their words help us to see and feel what our ancient India was like and the importance that our country (its civilization & culture) played in the history of the human race.
P. Johnstone: "Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of."
Will Durant, American historian: "India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all".
Mark Twain, American author: "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."
Albert Einstein, American scientist: "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to
USA: "India
conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having
to send a single soldier across her border."
Wheeler Wilcox: "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."
Sir W. Hunter, British Surgeon: "The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed."
Keith Bellows, National Geographic
Society : "There
are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won't
go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the
richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its
ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its
colors, smells, tastes, and sounds... I had been seeing the world in black
& white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything
re-rendered in brilliant technicolor."
William James, American Author: “From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.”
Max
Muller, German Scholar: "There
is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the
Upanishads." ('Sacred Books of the East')
Schopenhauer: "Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world." (Works VI p.427)
Mark Twain: "India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire."
Adolf Seilachar & P.K. Bose, scientists: “One Billion-Year-Old fossil prove life began in India: AFP Washington reports in Science Magazine that German Scientist Adolf Seilachar and Indian Scientist P.K. Bose have unearthed fossil in Churhat a town in Madhya Pradesh, India which is 1.1 billion years old and has rolled back the evolutionary clock by more than 500 million years.”
Dr Arnold Toynbee,
British Historian: “It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had
a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in
the self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in
history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian way.”
Emmelin Plunret: “They were very advanced Hindu astronomers in 6000 BCE.
Vedas contain an account of the dimension of Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets and
Galaxies.” (‘Calendars and Constellations’.
Max Mueller, German
scholar: 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.
Henry David Thoreau,
American Thinker & Author: Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt
that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of
the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and
nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge.
When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.
Romain Rolland, French
scholar: “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.”
Sir William Jones,
British Orientalist: “The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of
wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin
and more exquisitely refined than either.”
Will Durant, American
Historian: “It is true that
even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as
grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all
numerals and the decimal system.”
So, friends, these were the amazing quotes about India and We all are very proud of our motherland India.
Now, the MAIN & BIG Question is:
We are proud of
India But Is India Proud of us??
Are we
contributing in our own little bit way towards the betterment, progress and
development of our Country?
Because, as
rightly said by our beloved President Dr. Abdul Kalam
"We must NOT
think:
What
India/Country/Govt is doing for us/has given to us,
Instead our
thinking to be focused on:
What we are doing
for/has given to our motherland India."
This Independence Day, Let us all think about & introspect our
life. What have we done/are doing for our Community/Society/City/Country?
Be the change you
want to see. (Stop Complaining. Start Acting upon solutions/mediums of change)
Ending my post with a youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOGTyydQPOs#action=share where a group of youngsters is giving us Inspiration that No work is less when it comes to serving our community/country citizen.
We can serve in our very own way. It
doesn’t mean to join Army to protect Borders or Take Leave from Normal day to
day life or Join any NGO full time or Do charity with lots of money or Be
Bachelor all your life (like RSS Pracharak).
It just needs Real Heartfelt Intention
to serve our own countryperson/human beings.
Jai Hind! Jai Bharat!
Enjoy NOW !!
