Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free.

What is this universe but name and form?

If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers "crypto-buddhists".

With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.