To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.