Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land.

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!