Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.

Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.

Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even between a man and a woman. Love makes the whole universe as one's own home. True progress is slow but sure. Work among those young men who can devote heart and soul to this one duty - the duty of raising the masses of India. Awake them, unite them, and inspire them with this spirit of renunciation; it depends wholly on the young people of India.

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.