Books suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned the knowledge ourselves. When the inner light has flashed for you, let the books go, and look only within. You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.

Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal).

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?