Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses ….

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tre….

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort..

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are..

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists..

A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding..

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold f….

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend..

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it..

I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism….

God is Truth, Truth is God..

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further..

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not theref….

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents..

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel..

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather..

Be the compromise you want to see in the world..

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal..

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening..

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing c….

Untouchability is a terrible reality..