Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

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

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.