“Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”

—  Mahatma Gandhi

Part I, Chapter 21, 'Nirbal Ke Bala Rama'
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)

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