All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.
Swami VivekanandaWe have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.
Swami VivekanandaA man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.
Swami VivekanandaHow long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!
Swami Vivekananda