fanciful but works

"For world peace, teach one million children to meditate and they will teach parents, siblings, everyone else."  

- Director David Lynch who overseas the "Transcendental Meditation" brand

an Indian place in NYC

 

What do you think of Western Civilization?

Gandhi [1869-1948]: "I think it would be a good idea."

monomania

... to believe true whatever one wants to be true:

Christopher Columbus [1451-1506] believed India and Cathay were just 3,900 miles west of the Canaries. 

Indian politician

“There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group. There is less competition there.”
– Indira Gandhi

"the most perfect building in Islam"

Taj Mahal

injure no living thing

"... Buddha means India, for the spirit of India lies in religion rather than in science, in contemplation rather than in action, in a fraternal gentleness rather than in the application of mathematics to artillery, or of chemistry to bombs."
- Will Durant

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giver of bliss

"You never identify yourself with the shadow cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body, either."

- Shankara (A.D. 788-820),

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As a young man Gandhi thought that eating meat was necessary to produce the strength needed to drive the British Empire out of India.

subjects

"Generally they're very happy for me to [photograph them]."
- Lana Slezic

The Buddha's "fear not" gesture

"Tamil Nadu is the most splendid province on earth [and is the world's last surviving classical civilization]."
- Marco Polo

"... ginger shall be hot i' the mouth." - Shakespeare

"[Globally] there are more people with mobile phones than toilets."
- Rockefeller Foundation

The Buddha was a meat eater.

replacements

One person dies every six minutes on Indian roads, while one child is born every second [in India].

aphorism

"I use memories, but I will not allow them to use me."
- unattributed 

aphorism

Punjab, India, 1947

"'Now' is the moment that never ends."

A place to eat in Vancouver

http://www.vijs.ca

maxim

"I'd rather spend two days as a tiger than 200 years as a sheep."
- Tipu Sultan