It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.