My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.