If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

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

Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.