Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.