Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

Renunciation is of the mind.

As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come out and manifest itself. Therefore, this shraddha is what I want, and what all of us here want, this faith in ourselves, and before you is the great task to get that faith. Give up the awful disease that is creeping, into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.