The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.
Swami VivekanandaWhose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.
Swami VivekanandaEven the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.
Swami Vivekananda