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

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.

Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.