You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

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

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.