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

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.