According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

This rascal ego must be obliterated.