Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature.

Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.