This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.