Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.

I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.