Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?