The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full andfree done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.

Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the...

I swore that I would not suffer from the world’s grief and the world’s stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind...

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she...

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light,...

The great are strongest when they stand alone,A God-given might of being is their force.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass...

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite different things and one must know which one desires and not confuse the...

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even...

When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find...

Hidden nature is secret God.

Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character.

It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious...

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind – to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow...

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in...