May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.