YEARS AGO, LORD MACAULAY
ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT 2FEBRUARY, 1835 ABOUT INDIA

I have travelled across the length and breadth ofIndia and I have not seen one person who is a beggar,who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of suchcaliber, that I do not think we would ever conquerthis country, unless we break the very backbone ofthis nation which is her spiritual and cultural heritage and therefore, I propose that we replace herold and ancient education system, her cultrue, for ifthe Indians think that all that is foreign andEnglish is good and greater than their own, they will loose their self-esteem, their native culture and theywill become what we want of them, a truly dominatednation.

Arthur Schopenhauer on Upanishads:

In the whole world there is no such study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads.
It has been the solace of my life; it will be the solace of my death.

Arnold Joseph Toynbee:

At this supremely dangerous moment in human history, the only way of salvation is the ancient Indian way.

Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together into a single family.

George Bernard Shaw:

In the face of an Indian, you can see the natural glory of life, while we have covered ourselves with an artificial cloak.
Mark Twain:

Land of religions,
cradle of human race,
birthplace of human speech,
grandmother of legend,
great grandmother of tradition,
The land that all men desire to see and having seen once even by a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest of the globe combined.

Annie Besat:

After a study of some 40 years and move of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific, none so philosophical and none so spiritual than the great religion known by the name of Hinduism.

Make no mistake, without Hinduism, India has no future.

Hinduism is the soul into which India's roots are stuck and torn out of that, she will inevitably wither as a tree torn out from its place.

And if Hindus do not maintain Hinduism, who shall save it? If India's own children do not cling to her faith, who shall guard it? India alone can save India, and India & Hinduism are one.

Henry David Thoreau:

The extracts from the Vedas that I have read, fall on me like a light of higher and purer luminary which describes a loftier course through a purer stratum - free from particulars, simple, universal. It rises. on me like the full moon after the stars have come out, wading through some far stratum in the sky. On the Gita he salutes "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Gita in comparison with which our modern world and it literature seem puny and trivial.

Governor Warren Hastings:

Writings such as the Gita will survive when the British domination in India shall have long ceased to exist, and when the sources which it once yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrance.
Max Muller:

If one would ask me under what sky the human mind has most fully developed its precious gifts, has scrutinized profoundly the greatest problems of life, and has provided solutions which deserves to be admired even by those who have studied Plato and Kant. I would indicate India. And if one would ask me which literature would give us back (Europeans who have been exclusively fed on Greek, Roman, Jewish thought) the necessary equilibrium in order to make our inner life move perfect, more comprehensive, more universal and in short, more human, a life not only for this life, but for a transformed and eternal life, once again I would indicate India.

Will Durant:

India was the mother of our race,
and Sanskrit, the mother of our European languages.
She was the mother of philosophy.
Mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics.
Mother, through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity.
Mother, through village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.