The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.

The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition.

If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation.