"You should be glad that the government has provided for chain and bangles at their own expense, why are you feeling so bad about it?"

“Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.”

“It is natural for a train to run on its tracks. We get into a train because we believe that it will do that. But once in a while the train runs off the rails, and there’s an accident. Those who don’t actually witness such a happening can say, “No train will run off the rails, it is unnatural for it to do so”.”

“Article on Kalki in The Tribune”

“There are many evils in this country. The only remedy for every one of them is freedom for the nation.”

“Listen, You can hear the thunder. Ten cracks in the last five minutes. The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth? No. And therefore it is natural for thunder to crash, and only in the skies. But once in a long while lightning does strike the earth. Then, instead of killing its victim outright, it snatches his eyes away. Swami, would you say this is a natural phenomenon, or that it is against nature?”

“If it is natural for lightning to strike the earth, why doesn’t it strike each and every one of us? Why does it not blind us all?”