Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Live every day like it is your last and learn everyday like you will live forever

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.