When a child, my nurse taught me to repeat [the mantra] Ramanama whenever I felt afraid or miserable, and it has been second nature with me, with growing knowledge and advancing years. I may even say that the word is in my heart, if not actually on my lips, all the twenty-four hours. It has been my savior and I am ever stayed on it.
— Mahatma Gandhi, The Way to God by Mahatma Gandhi, M. S. Desphande, editor