Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.

So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.