In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.