Quotes of Baha'i leaders about Hinduism and Buddhism

"How many a man hath secluded himself in the climes of India, denied himself the things that God hath decreed as lawful, imposed upon himself austerities and mortifications, and hath not been remembered by God, the Revealer of Verses"; "again, if we look at the Hindoos we see that they have made images and worship them as deities, and they have eight million such deities in their temples. It is evident that these are superstitions and imaginations. They worship the cow, the stone, the water and the forces of nature--all these are imitations of the past and they have no foundation whatever"; "there are certain sects in India who worship plants. There are certain people who worship monkey. Consider how degraded is the man whose object of worship is monkey"; ancient astrological deductions "stemmed from the idle conjectures of the Hindus and the superstitions of the Greeks, the Romans and the other star-worshipers"; "the doctrine of metempsychosis upheld by the Hindus is fallacious"; "in India they are full of these ideas, and these are the cause of their downfall-because of their imaginations"; and "the Hindu and Buddhist expect to regain the progress of the times of Gautama [Buddha] and Brahma", yet "each one of the religions of the world has at one time been the cause of progress but each has become like an old tree, devoid of truth".

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