Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

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