I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.