Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes, welcome. Then, when we come up to this love, all crooked things shall be straight. There will be the same sight for the Brahmin, the Pariah, and the dog. Until we love the universe with samesightedness, with impartial, undying love, we are missing again and again. But then all will have vanished, and we shall see in all the same infinite eternal Mother.

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

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

He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy.

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.