The Taking Of Vows That

God Took And Needed No Personal Service. He Served His Creatures Without Demanding Any Service For Himself In Return.

There Are Subjects Where Reason Cannot Take Us Far And We Have To Accept Things On Faith. Faith Then Does Not Contradict Reason But Transcends It. Faith Is A Kind Of Sixth Sense Which Works In Cases Which Are Without The Purview Of Reason.

If A Man Were So Placed Or Could So Place Himself As To Be Absolutely Above All Dependence On His Fellow-beings He Would Become So Proud And Arrogant As To Be A Veritable Burden And Nuisance To The World.

I Have No Secret Methods. I Know No Diplomacy Save That Of Truth. I Have No Weapon But Non-violence.

I Know Of No System Other Than Hinduism Under Which A Class Has Been Set Apart From Generation To Generation For The Exclusive Pursuit Of Divine Knowledge And Consigned To Voluntary Poverty.