The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject].

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

Renunciation is of the mind.

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.