The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do.

Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing.

The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work.

There is no other teacher but your own soul.