I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the Western world the contrary is true. By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith will lose much of its individuality.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing.

Only man makes Karma.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.