Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

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

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these.

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.