God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.