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

It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.