"Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries for ever; any other knowledge satisfies wants only for a time. It is only with the knowledge of the spirit that the faculty of want is annihilated for ever; so helping man spiritually is the highest help that can be given to him."

"Man is not travelling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth."

"Never say, 'I cannot', for you are infinite. All the power is within you. You can do anything."

"There is the lotus leaf in the water; the water cannot touch and adhere to it; so will you be in the world. This is called Vairagya, dispassion or non-attachment."

"Duty is sweet only through love, and love shines in freedom alone."

"No knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what a man 'learns' is really what he 'discovers', by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge."