Varanasi Quotes

• Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

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  Tahir Shah

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.

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  Neem Karoli Baba

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• When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I loved, loved the culture. It was a beautiful journey. The way the people dressed - even the poorest people, and the fabrics! With vegetable dyes, and I was fascinated by the color. But in the end I loved the men - all in white - so many shades of white. And I said, "What am I going to do? A color collection or a white collection?" I finally did a neutral white collection.

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  Donna Karan

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.

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  Aravind Adiga

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• In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

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  Narendra Modi

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• My first intellectual challenge was to try to understand this incredible city of Banaras (also called Varanasi) in India and its meaning for Hindus. That was the place I lived for the first year I was in India and I've been back many times. It's a kind of home to me.

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  Diana L. Eck

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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