When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.

So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.