There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion.

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.