I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.

All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.