To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.

The body and mind are dependent.

There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit. They are only different phases of experiencing the One.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.