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

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.