Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

Move onward and carry into practice.

Say to your own minds, "I am He, I am He". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a song, and at the point of death declare : "I am He". That is truth; the infinite strength of the world is yours.