No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

The world sympathizes only with strong and powerful.

Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never existed, that there is only I. Flash-the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatic, whose business it has been all the time, and he knows it, and he does not use too much machinery.

Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.