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.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.