The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.

Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.