Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.