Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.