If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - "everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything." All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Virât? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods.