Harmony -----the key-notes

The Key-notes.

 

" In whatever way men approach Me, the Supreme Spirit, even so do I accept them. Whatever path they choose leads to Me alone".--Lord Krishna.

"He who out of respect for his own faith disparages the faiths of others inflicts the greatest injury on his own."

---King Ashoka, a staunch follower of Buddhism.

"Each person according to his  condition gives the Supreme Being a name, but in reality to name the unknowable is vain." ----Moghul emperor Akbar.(Quoted by H.G.Rawlinson-A short Cultural History.--(Adventures in Religious Life)

"The science of Hindu Vedanta is the science of Sufism or the mysticism of Islam."---Jehangie King Akbar's son.

"The universal Spirit of Islam and Hinduism was instrumental in having the Upanishads translaterd into Persian."----Dara Shuko,a grandson of Jehangir.

These were later on translated into a jargon of Latin, Greek and persian,and drew the admiration of the German philosopher Schopenhaueer ---"that incomparable book stirs the spirit to the depths of the soul. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death."---Quoted by max Muller.

"The people (of Calicut in India ) are infidels; consequently I consider m's country, as Mohammedans consider everyone who has not received the Qur'an. yet I admit that I meet with perfect toleration and even favour; we have two mosques and are allowed to pray in public." ---Abdul Razak, the Persian Muslim ambassador. (Quoted by S.Radhakrishna--Eastern religion and western thought)

"Help and not fight." "Assimilation and not Destruction."

"Harmony and peace and not Dissension."---Swami Vivekanand.