Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.