Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlecchas, and as one who succeeded in the reestablishment of Dharma which had been trampled underfoot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.