Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.