Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

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