In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.