Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise - apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.

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

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.