The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage.

Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?