If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

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

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.