The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.

That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature...All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.