It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.