Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards.

External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.

The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.