All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course.

Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.

Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they get five minutes religion to amuse them. This is the danger with the liberal thought.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.