Renunciation is of the mind.

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.