Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason.

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.