Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.