The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood – that marvellous, unselfish, all – suffering, ever – forgiving mother.
You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.
A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.
According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.
In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.
Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.
Marriage, sex, and money are the only living devils.
Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.
Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.
Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson – that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.
Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.
This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: ‘Keep yourself holy, and pure.’ So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.
What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.
Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.
Hold to the idea, “I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act,” and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.
Immediately, you will be perfect; you will become God.
Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.
Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.