The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.

Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries.

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom

The Yogi must always practice.