' The Hindu Religion '...

“Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming ........... Swami Vivekananda ................... Hinduism is so elastic and subtle that the most profound Methodist and crudest Idolator are equally at home with it.” .............George Bernard Shaw ................... “The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.” ................ Carl Sagan, Cosmos