You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry.

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.