There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.

The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.

Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

All progression is in the relative world.