Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. Politics, power, and even intellect form a secondary consideration here. Religion, therefore, is the one consideration in India.

We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good