The Absolute cannot be divided.

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy their individual characteristics until, in time, you eliminate the spiritual, for instance, from the religious altogether.

All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.