“Vish, the creator; and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.”
“The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.”
“Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.”
“What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.”
“By simply believing that their lives could be transformed, they succeeded in converting their thoughts into reality.’ It”
“Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”
“When jumbled up, the letters contained in the name Taarak Vakil now spelt out a name that every theologian in India would be familiar with. Kalki avatar—the tenth incarnation of Vishnu.”
“good lawyers know the law and that great lawyers know the judge?”
“The French philosopher Voltaire was the one who vehemently declared, “Pythagoras went to the Ganges to learn geometry.”
“Modern scientists now believe that there are seven broad forms of energy—mechanical, heat, chemical, radiant, electrical, sound, and nuclear. It is my reasoned guess that the ancient yogis knew this. They also knew that each of these could be broken into seven constituent elements! It’s impossible to understand how they knew this, but they did. Even their most important and exalted river—the Sarasvati—was part of the Saptasindhu, the seven rivers. Vedic knowledge was derived from the Saptarishi—the seven sages. Even Dwarka was the embodiment of Saptadweep—the seven islands.”
“Our collective energies make miracles happen, not the stone idol.”
“No one called me Krishna in Gokul. I was lovingly called Kanhaiya or Kanha—the adolescent—by the village folk. My pranks and naughtiness were a frequent topic of discussion. My insatiable appetite for butter earned me the title of ‘Maakhan Chor’ in the village.”
“history is simply a version of events that can be easily influenced by the political, cultural and religious leanings of those who write it.”
“You are spot-on,’ remarked Saini. ‘Prior to the advent of Islam, the word Allah had already existed. It was derived from two Arabic words, al—meaning “the”, and ilah—meaning “deity”. Over a period of time, the combined phrase al-ilah came to be pronounced as Allah.”
“their fellow citizens was to deny them free health care, cut the taxes of the wealthy, privatize what few public assets remained and oppose any regulation of a rampant free market that was benefiting the few, rather than the many.”
“في محنة تاريخ دُفن حيّاً، سقط العام 1948 في فلسطين من الرُزنامة إلى المنفى، متوقفّاً عن حساب العدّ السائر للأيام والشهور والسنوات، ليصبح بدلاً من ذلك ضباباً لا نهاية له!”
“There is
no such thing as a problem
without a gift for you
in its hands.
You seek problems
because you need
their gifts.”
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. —Lucille Ball”
“Melons. The girls. Gazongas. I could rattle off every nickname in the world for my boobs – oops nearly forgot jubblies – but it didn’t change the fact they were small.”
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