Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library.

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness.

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.