Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
One’s everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.
Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.
A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.
I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.
He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.
True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.
I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.
Swadeshi is the only doctrine consistent with the law of humanity and love.
I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.
I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.