In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

Man is greater than the gods.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.

Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.