The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons.

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.

The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.

Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.