"I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan."
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"I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one."
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"Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory."
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"My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities."
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"I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry."
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"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much."
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"Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world."
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"Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion."
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"Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting."
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"With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body"
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"I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones."
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"Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness."
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"My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita."
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"There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life."
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"The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination."
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"If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?"
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"Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south."
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"We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day."
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"There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable."
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"The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour."
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