Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.
That parrot’s non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.
An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes.
Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.
There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.
The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.
Satan’s snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.
The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.
The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.
Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him.
A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan’s temptations.
Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan’s workshops.
Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.
Social service that savours of patronage is not service.