We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste." Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu.

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.