The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!

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

As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?