My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.