Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . .

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.