Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.