The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

God is pure, and the same to all.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the "I", is the result of these impressions. This "I" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.