No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.