Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

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.

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.