Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.

We have wept enough. No more weeping, but stand on feet and be men.

Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: "Thou art That", "Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!"