Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.