The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.

All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.