So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.

It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together in to a single family.

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.