Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.

All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.