Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn it, says Krishna; struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it. So with children, with wife, husband, relatives, fame, everything; you have no need to shun them, only don't get attached. There is only one attachment and that belongs to the Lord, and to none other.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.