It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.