Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.