Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them.

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And as we go on repeating this, strength comes. He who falters at first will get stronger and stronger, and the voice will increase in volume until the truth takes possession of our hearts, and courses through our veins, and permeates our bodies.