In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.