Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

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 Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.