The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.
You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.
The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.
The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.
There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.
The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection.
Hinduism is the mother of all religions.
No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.
All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting.
Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.
My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?
The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. “what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known.” That is the one search.
Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.
So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it.
On this basic – being right and doing right the whole world can unite.
A changeable God would be no God.
All change is in the screen.
All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death.