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

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.

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.

This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet!

Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.