The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Service to man is service to god

How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.