All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.