He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

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.