If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the background, the foundation upon which that religion is built.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

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