Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.

He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.