Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.