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

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination.

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

One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

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