When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.

The human will stands beyond all circumstances. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God Himself; a pure and a strong will is omnipotent. Before it all the powers, even of nature, must bow down, succumb, and become its servants - the strong gigantic, infinite will in man.