| 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. |
| The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives. |
| Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories. |
| What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion. |
| All problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony. |
| The atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself. |
| The practice of yoga brings us face-to-face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being. |
| 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. |
| If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose. |
| Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it, till it is shattered by fresh genius. |
| The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation. |
| Hinduism, gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God ward endeavor of the human spirit. |
