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

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.