The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

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

Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.