Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right.

We never change, we never die, and we are never born.

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

This rascal ego must be obliterated.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.