Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached.

With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

From attachment comes longing, and longing breeds anger. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion, confused memory. From confused memory comes the ruin of discrimination; and from the ruin of discrimination, a man perishes.