Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

We never change, we never die, and we are never born.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.