The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

See what an atmosphere of holiness is here the pure air of the Ganga what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a place like this!

Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.