Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.