A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.