Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

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.

There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.