Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

You must all pay attention to your health first.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.