When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

Service to man is service to god

The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.

Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

In the world take always the position of the giver.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.