Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.