Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.