If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. So we have to take ourselves where we are as materialists, and must take the help of matter and go on slowly until we become real spiritualists, and feel ourselves spirits, understand the spirit, and find that this world which we call the infinite is but a gross external form of that world which is behind.

I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.