The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.

Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important role not only in cure of physical ailments, but also for moral and spiritual progress.

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.