We talk about a secular state in India. It is perhaps not very easy even to find a good word in Hindi for "secular". Some people think it means somet… - Jawaharlal Nehru

..There will be the direct weakening effect, but much worse will be the inner psychological conflict between those who wish to reunite her and those who oppose this. New vested interest will be created which will resist change and progress, a new evil Karma will pursue us in the future. One wrong step leads to another; so it has been in the past and so it may be in the future. And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics, and no man can say with surety whether present wrong-doing is better and safer in the end than the possibility of that imagined peril.

Essentially, I am interested in this world, in this life, not in some other world or a future life. Whether there is such a thing as a soul, or whether there is a survival after death or not, I do not know; and, important as these questions are, they do not trouble me in the least.

பெண்மையின் லட்சிய அடையாளங்களாக சீதாவும் சாவித்ரியும் பேசப்படுகிறார்கள். ஆனால் இவர்களைப் போலவே ஸ்ரீராமனையும், சத்யவானையும் ஆண்கள் உதாரண புருஷர்களாக மதிக்க வேண்டுமென யாரும் சொன்னதாகத் தெரியவில்லை.