I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul.

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.