When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.