God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.

Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time.

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?