The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes, welcome. Then, when we come up to this love, all crooked things shall be straight. There will be the same sight for the Brahmin, the Pariah, and the dog. Until we love the universe with samesightedness, with impartial, undying love, we are missing again and again. But then all will have vanished, and we shall see in all the same infinite eternal Mother.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

Hinduism is the mother of all religions

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.