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.

Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.