The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.

You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .

I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!