Lasting Peace Can Come Only

If I Was Asked What Is The Greatest Treasure Which India Possesses And What Is Her Finest Heritage, I Would Answer Unhesitatingly That It Is The Samskrit Language And Literature And All That It Contains. This Is A Magnificent Inheritance And So Long As This Endures And Influences The Life Of Our People, So Long Will The Basic Genius Of India Continue. If Our Race Forgot The Buddha, The Upanishads And The Great Epics (ramayana And Mahabharata), India Would Cease To Be India .

What The Mysterious Is I Do Not Know. I Do Not Call It God Because God Has Come To Mean Much That I Do Not Believe In. I Find Myself Incapable Of Thinking Of A Deity Or Of Any Unknown Supreme Power In Anthropomorphic Terms, And The Fact That Many People Think So Is Continually A Source Of Surprise To Me. Any Idea Of A Personal God Seems Very Odd To Me.

By Education I Am An Englishman, By Views An Internationalist, By Culture A Muslim And A Hindu Only By Accident Of Birth.

Logic And Cold Reason Are Poor Weapons To Fight Fear And Distrust. Only Faith And Generosity Can Overcome Them.

...that Great Lover Of Peace, A Man Of Giant Stature Who Moulded, As Few Other Men Have Done, The Destinies Of His Age.