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In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.

Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.

In terms of the quality of food entering you, vegetarian food is definitely far better for the system than non vegetarian.

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

When we are young, revolution is the most romantic thing.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated down rivers. So, I didn't experience these rivers, mountains, forests as some mythological figures but as thriving, living entities.

We have to grow in such a way that our growth is not at the cost of something else.

What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.

Many philosophies have evolved based on the choice of food. But one must remember there is nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral about the food we eat. It is only a question of whether the food is compatible with the kind of body we have.

Essentially, all life on the planet is coming from the earth. Whether it is a human being or an earthworm, it is the same soil.

For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.

This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.

Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.

In this country, nobody should be talking about unemployment, as there is so much to be done in India.

It is important that global business leaders understand that they need to think beyond their quarterly balance sheets and see what it is that they are creating.