11. When leprosy patients touched the soil, they transformed it into gold, but the politicians did that and made it into . 12. Carry your ideals before you like banners. It is not enough to put them on pedestals. Ideals which grip the masses prove to be a mighty force. Their force is stronger than the hope of earthy gain and they are more productive of real weath. 13. The war-cry will no longer be with Marx or Mao; the spirit of revenge cannot build a new world. 14. Only a revolution which leads to a higher sense of human dignity can lead to a higher and nobler way of life. Revolutions based on hatred and violence do not really change the situation. They merely transform the people who had been exploited inti a new class of exploiters but hatred and exploitation remain. Therefore, there is no substitute for Gandhi%u2019s way of rousing the impoverished masses to creative awareness. 15. To me, the common man%u2019s society is a maskless society. He does not carry that thick mask which the professional people, the upper classes, whereas they might look nice and beautiful. Very often they do not dare to say what they really think and feel. 16. Wherever God has pointed the way with his finger, he has also cleared the way with His mighty palm. 17. A person can live without fingers, but not without self-respect. Courtesy: The Hitvada, Nagpur
Baba was definately a great soul whose thoughts are worth contemplating and inbibing in one,s life. May his soul rest in peace!
