All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.