The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?

It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.