The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

The sign of life is strength and growth.

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.