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

Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition.

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.