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

That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the Hindu paintings? All sorts of grotesque and unnatural figures. What do you see in a Hindu temple? A Chaturbhanga Narayana or some such thing. But take into consideration any Italian picture or Grecian statue-what a study of nature you find in them! A gentleman for twenty years sat burning a candle in his hand, in order to paint a lady carrying a candle in her hand.

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.