Like the bee, gathering honey from different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
Like the bee, gathering honey from different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
Srimad Bhagavatam
The Good in All Religions
Topic: Interfaith Pathways
“Like the bee, gathering honey from different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.”
Srimad Bhagavatam
HinduismWilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture - a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1991, p. 40 [Srimad Bhagavatam 11.3].
Srimad Bhagavatam
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Srimad Bhagavatam 11.3
One of the great Hindu Puranas, Srimad Bhagavatam says: ‘Like the bee, gathering honey from different flowers, the wise man accepts the essence of different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.’ [This quote is widely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, and he may well have used it in his own teachings.]
–Suresh Chandra [Encylopaedia of Hindu Gods and Goddesses (Sarup & Sons, New Delhi, 2nd edition 2001)] p. 134.
Swami Vivekananda said:
“I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true: ‘As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different paths which men take through tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God’ [Sanskrit hymn].”
–Swami Vivekananda [Addresses at the Parliament of Religions, Response To Welcome, Chicago, September 11, 1893].