The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

It will not do to depend on the mind alone.