The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

Both heaven and hell are within us.

If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.