These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.

If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.