The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.

Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.