Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.