We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.