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.

The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.