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.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

No two persons have the same mind or the same body.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

We have to practice to become perfect.

It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.

Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.