Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.

Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.