Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.