Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

You must all pay attention to your health first.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

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

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments

Marriage and sex and money the only living devils.

Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals