While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.
YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.
It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.
To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.
One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.
We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness.”
If superstition enters, the brain is gone.
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.
Music alone can take you to the Highest!
The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.
When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.
Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.