Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.