In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Cowardice is no virtue.

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.