Oprah Winfrey on “Why I Chose Hinduism Over Thousands of Other Religions.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaK1aX55CT4
In this inspiring and deeply personal speech, the speaker shares their journey of spiritual discovery and the heartfelt reasons behind choosing Hinduism among thousands of world religions. Drawing from lived experiences and timeless wisdom, this message explores inner peace, unity in diversity, and the profound truths that guided one soul toward a path of acceptance, growth, and inner transformation—delivered in the empowering style inspired by Oprah Winfrey.
The following are some of the statements. Please watch the video. Every word is worth listening to. Her appreciation and her experience are worth listening to.
Hinduism didn't tell me what to think. It showed me how to think, how to feel, how to connect with something greater than myself. It didn't demand my loyalty. It invited my experience Hinduism didn't tell me what to think. It showed me how to think, how to feel, how to connect with something greater than myself.
It didn't demand my loyalty. It invited my experience. In a world with thousands of religions I chose one that made room for all of them I chose a path that honors questions as much as answers silence as much as sound.
In a world with thousands of religions I chose one that made room for all of them I chose a path that honors questions as much as answers silence as much as sound. And that choice changed everything.
There was a time when I thought I had all the answers. Raised with certain beliefs surrounded by certain voices I accepted the truth that was handed to me like a script I never questioned.
And then I encountered Hinduism not through a textbook or a tour guide but through experience, through moments. A line in the Bhagavad Gita that stopped me mid-sentence. A chant that gave me goosebumps without understanding a single word.
A temple visit that left me breathless in its silence. What struck me wasn't the complexity or the mythology, it was the freedom. For the first time I didn't feel like I was being asked to surrender my question. I was being invited to sit with them. Hinduism didn't hand me a final answer and ask me to memorize it. It asked me to go deeper to keep asking, to keep exploring.
It didn't claim to be the only truth. It embraced all truths as facets of one infinite reality. It didn't speak of heaven as a reward or hell as a punishment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaK1aX55CT4