External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates.

I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.