Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying, 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'!

It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them.