The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.

Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. It is not religion. It is no better than atheism - a little less.

Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.