#Quotes

My view point is essentially that of questioning layman, who enquires in order to find out the why and whither of human conduct and the achievements of history as well as the prospects of civilization.

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

“There is no sense lingering on the past, You have to make best of what’s available now.”

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

“The advent of Atombomb into a world of varying moral standards and uncertain international friendships has made everyone aware for the first time of the awful fact that, if the world ever lost its spiritual and moral equilibrium, it was now possible completely to eliminate life itself.”

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

To me, As to a host of the people of India, Art and Music, Architecture and Sculpture, are so many ways through which the infinite may be approached.

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

“Education has a great part to play in assuring the intellectual and moral basis not only for citizenship of the state but also for that world citizenship which is the imperative need of the time. For education to serve the purposes of democracy and world citizenship it should be in a real sense ‘liberal’.”

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

“Art conducts us from the vestibule of reality into the innermost shrine and reveals the transcendental to our vision.”

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

The Itihasas and the Puranas assume an importance to the student of Vedic religion in elaborating, explaining and illustrating the eternal truths of the Vedas and the Upanisads.

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

“The Gita is the lamp of wisdom of a Hindu; to it he turns whenever his mind is torn by doubts and dissensions, conflict and confusion.”

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

It is important that the freedom we have attained after a hundred years of struggle should be felt and enjoyed by the millions. Let us therefore model our Swarajya after the conception of Rishis and achieve the Rama Rajya.

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

“Respect does not come to one because of a position.”

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

In succeeding to the throne of Mysore, I follow a great ruler who loved you all, and who won your love by his love of God, by his wisdom, his graciousness, his humility, his faithfulness to his duty and his Kingly greatness; …called upon people to ‘consecrate themselves in the spirit of unity and self sacrifice.

– H.H Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Majaraja of Mysore, On the occasion of his coronation.

“शिवार्पितामनानित्यं आम्नायाग्रेपि पण्डितः
जयचामराज भूपो राजतां राजतां सदा.”

-जगद्गुरु श्री अभिनव विद्यातीर्थ स्वामी, श्रृंगेरी.

“May His Highness Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, who is always devoted to God and who is learned in vedanta be ever illustrious.

– H.H. Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyatirtha Swamigalavaru, Sringeri

“What is more valuable is a common appreciation of the whole milieu of the culture, values, art, literature, and philosophy in which people live, move, and have their being.”

– H.H. Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore.

ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಸಿಂಹಾಸನಾರೂಢರಾಗಿ ಮಹಾರಾಜರಾದರೆ, ಆವರು ಅದನ್ನು ತ್ಯಜಿಸಿ ಜನರ ಹೃದಯ ಸಿಂಹಾಸನದ ಅಧಿದೇವತೆಯಾದವರು.

– ಮಹಾರಾಜ ಜಯಚಾಮರಾಜ ಒಡೆಯರವರು ತಮ್ಮ ರಾಜ್ಯ ವನ್ನು ಭಾರತೀಯ ಒಕ್ಕೂಟದೊಂದಿಗೆ ವಿಲೀನಗೊಳಿಸಿದರ ಕುರಿತು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಕವಿ ಕುವೆಂಪು ಅವರ ಮಾತುಗಳು

Men ascend a throne to become Kings, But He became a King of the people’s hearts by giving up his.

– Kuvempu, Kannada National Poet, on the Maharaja’s merging his kingdom with the Indian Union.