External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for 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

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.