Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.