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

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.