"We must prevent the Hindu religion from becoming rigid and unprogressive."

"India is predominantly an agricultural country, but we don't grow food to feed our people. Some say we are an industrial country, but where is the development of industries? What shall we say?” To thi…"

"The modern world is a world of change, and if we do not change with it, we shall be left behind."

"The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it…"

"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West … Out of place everywhere, at home nowhere."