As for myself, I look upon all women as my Mother. This is a very pure attitude of mind. There is no risk or danger in it. To look upon a woman as one's sister is also not bad. But the other attitudes are very difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible to keep to the purity of the ideal.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.

A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.