This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same conscious Self is present in all beings. You always criticize the women, but say what have you done for their uplift? Writing down Smritis etc., and binding them by hard rules, the men have turned the women into manufacturing machines! If you do not raise the women, who are living embodiment of the Divine Mother, don’t think that you have any other way to rise.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

All law has its essence in causation.