The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.