My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

Whatever I do is out of love.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.