Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Each soul is potentially divine.

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.

Have faith in your destiny

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.