Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.