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“J’ai rencontré souvent dans tous les domaines l’hostilité des « scientifiques ». Pourtant, une fois, Louis Renou, agacé des remarques faites contre l'« amateur » que j’étais, protesta publiquement : « Daniélou ne connaît pas nos méthodes mais quand je ne comprends pas un texte, c’est à lui que je le demande. » Après quoi, les indianistes français me laissèrent plus tranquille.”

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Le Chemin du labyrinthe, 1981

“L’Inde est ma vraie patrie.”

Alain Daniélou

Dans le dernier interview qu’il donna avant sa mort.

“La seule valeur que je ne remette jamais en question est celle des enseignements que j'ai reçus de l'hindouisme shivaïte qui refuse tout dogmatisme car je n'ai trouvé aucune forme de pensée qui soit allée aussi loin, aussi clairement, avec une telle profondeur et une telle intelligence, dans la compréhension du divin et des structures du monde.”

Alain Daniélou

Extrait de son livre : Le Chemin du labyrinthe

“Devant l'avilissement d'une pensée religieuse devenue purement dogmatique, puritaine et sociale, non seulement en Occident mais dans l'Inde moderne elle-même, il semble que la redécouverte d'une mythologie symbolique, d'une cosmologie qui ne sépare pas religion, métaphysique et science, d'un respect plus grand de la liberté d'être et de penser, qui n'est en fait que le respect du créateur qui a inventé l'homme, pourrait être la source de cette ère nouvelle qui doit succéder aux désastres qui menacent l'humanité.”

Alain Daniélou

Mythes et dieux de l'Inde, 1992

Alain Daniélou: Citations en anglais

“Symbolically, Ganesha represents the basic unity of the macrocosm and microcosm, the immense being (the elephant) and the individual being (man).”

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Alain Daniélou, in Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus (1992), p. 90 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=QDQK7l13WIIC&pg=PA89.  <br class="br">Contexte: Symbolically, Ganesha represents the basic unity of the macrocosm and microcosm, the immense being (the elephant) and the individual being (man). This highly implausible identity is however a fundamental reality and the key to all mystic or ritual experience as well as to Yogic possibilities. Without being aware of Ganesha, and without worshipping him, no accomplishment is possible.

“The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which…lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of ordinary social life.”

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Alain Daniélou, in Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus
Contexte: The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which... lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of ordinary social life. This does not involve simply a recognition of world harmony, but also an active participation in an experience which surpasses and upsets the order of material life.

“India whose ancient borders stretched until Afghanistan, lost with the country of seven rivers (the Indus Valley), the historical center of her civilization. At a time when the Muslim invaders seemed to have lost some of their extremism and were ready to assimilate themselves to other populations of India, the European (British) conquerors, before returning home, surrendered once more to Muslim fanaticism the cradle of Hindu civilization.”

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Alain Danielou, Histoire de l'Inde - Alain Danielou p. 355

“From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of 'a holy war' of their faith, of their sole God, that the barbarians have destroyed civilizations, wiped out entire races. Mahmoud Ghazni was an early example of Muslim ruthlessness, burning in 1018 of the temples of Mathura, razing Kanauj to the ground and destroying the famous temple of Somnath, sacred to all Hindus. His successors were as ruthless as Ghazni: 103 temples in the holy city of Benaras were razed to the ground, its marvelous temples destroyed, its magnificent palaces wrecked.”

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Alain Danielou: Histoire de l' Inde

“Sanskrit is constructed like geometry and follows a rigorous logic. It is theoretically possible to explain the meaning of the words according to the combined sense of the relative letters, syllables and roots. Sanskrit has no meanings by connotations and consequently does not age. Panini's language is in no way different from that of Hindu scholars conferring in Sanskrit today.”

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Alain Danielou in: Virtue, Success, Pleasure, and Liberation: The Four Aims of Life in the Tradition of Ancient India https://books.google.co.in/books?id=IMSngEmfdS0C&pg=PA17, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1 August 1993 , p. 17.

“The creation of Sanskrit, the “refined” language, was a prodigious work on a grand scale. Grammarians and semanticists of genius undertook to create a perfect language, artificial and permanent, belonging to no one, that was to become the language of the entire culture.”

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Alain Danielou in: A Brief History of India https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Kwnv3I6qIosC&pg=PA58, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, 11 February 2003, p. 58.

“Sanskrit was a complete success and became the language of all cultured people in India and in countries under Indian influence. All scientific, philosophical, historical works were henceforth written in Sanskrit, and important texts existing in other languages were translated and adapted into Sanskrit. For this reason, very few ancient literary, religious, or philosophical documents exits in India in other languages. The sheer volume of Sanskrit literature is immense, and it remains largely unexplored.”

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