Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.
One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Simplicity is the essence of universality.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.
Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.
Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.