38 Quotes by Vinoba Bhave

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.

What we should aim at is the creation of people power, which is opposed to the power of violence and is different from the coercive power of state.

I cannot bear to see karma, jnana and bhakti separated. To some seekers established in karma, this is the only thing that appears worth-while.

I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.

If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.