Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.