The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

In a difficulty in the company of the central and the instigator, be successful your central.

The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!