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Quotes by Indian Authors


"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."

"At the cost of efficiency always choose awareness, and you will create the situation in which meditation will become possible. You are not here just to become more and more efficient-you are here to become more and more alive; you are here to become more and more intelligent; you are here to become more and more happy, ecstatically happy. But that is totally different from the ways of the mind."

"Among all the machines, motorcar is my favorite machine."

"It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration."

"Don't be attached to anything. Be in the world, but don't be of the world."

"Live simply so others may simply live."

"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society."

"Eternal love' (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation]."

"Many preach that do this way, do that way, have faith, speak the truth, have patience. These are all results (effects). How can results be changed?"

"The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real."

"Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants."

"This Holi, may your life bloom like the colors in the sky, full of hope, happiness, and positivity!"

"Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others."


"There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved."

"A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up."


"Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black."

"The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts."

"There is no force in the universe that can harm you, unless you allow it to."

"What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? 'If you want to continue to remain in the worldly life, then do what people say, but if you want to attain Moksha [ultimate liberation], then do only what I say, then only you can go to Moksha!"

"A man made invention is never similar to mother nature's creations because they do not have the strongest structures that can withstand any kind of destruction and not one hundred percent healthy. This is why nature is our unique beauty that we can enjoy unlike the creations that are made by mankind ."

"Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process."

"The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason."

"We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has 'adjusted everywhere'."

"Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are."

"Once you choose to be yourself, competition ceases to exist."

"Neem coating of urea ensured corruption stops and farmers get the urea that they need."

"Happy Ganesh Chaturthi! May Lord Ganesha guide you through life's challenges and bring endless joy and prosperity."

"Parliament has recently passed a new law on inland waterways which will enable the rapid development of this efficient mode of transport. This will increase the number of navigable waterways from 5 to 106."

"I may just be on the outskirts of being okay."

"It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom."

"Charge' means coming together of all the circumstances and 'discharge' means the circumstances get over."

"When you don't have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism."


"So long as you do not know how to die it is useless for you to learn how to kill. India will not be benefited by brutal force. If India is to be benefited it will be through non-violence."
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