With the ever-growing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a greater role to play by reminding us of our humanity. There is no contradiction between the two. Each gives us valuable insights into the other. Both science and the teachings of the Buddha tell us of the fundamental unity of all things. This understanding is crucial if we are to take positive and decisive action on the pressing global concern with the environment.

India is the land of Buddha and Gandhi. Equal respect for all religions must be in the DNA of every Indian.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

But to show you my heart fully, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear to be not a god! Therefore, there are no gods.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.