Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".