This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".

How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.