Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, ‘I will work out the salvation of this woman or child.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They...

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,because he knows that the body is nothing.

Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to...

Arise,awake and donot stop until the goal is reached.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him...

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants...

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply...

Never say, “O Lord, I am a miserable sinner.” Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. What in this universe can help you? What can prevail over you? You are the...

Curiously enough, it seems that at times the spiritual side prevails, and then the materialistic side—in wave-like motions following each other. …At one time the full flood of materialistic ideas prevails, and everything in this...

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are...

We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that which we are accustomed to call our religious faith. But local customs are infinite and contradictory. Which are we...

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love’s sake, because it is the...

Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because...

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.

One infinite – pure and holy – beyond thoughts and beyond qualities – bow down to thee

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

ARISE, AWAKE AND STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED

Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end in view; it’s great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes...

They alone live, who live for others.

Vair gya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love....

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world,...

This human body is the greatest body in the universe, and a human being the greatest being. Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man. Even the Devas (gods)...

arise,awake,stop not until your goal is achieved.

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.

AriseAwakeDont stop tillthe goalis reached

Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have been necessary to protect us as a nation, and when this necessity for self-preservation will no more...

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.Love is Life, Hatred is Death.

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.