Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma.

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?