The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.

We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.

I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.