We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

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'.

Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death