Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.

He who sees Siva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Siva; and if he sees Siva only in the image, his worship is but

preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Siva in him without thinking of his caste, creed or race, or anything, with him Siva

is more pleased than with the man who sees him only in temples.

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God, nearer than any prayer.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion—the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so

that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing, but to get the higher.

Freedom is only possible to the being who is beyond all conditions, all laws, all bondages of cause and effect. In other words, the unchangeable

The real individuality is that which never changes and will never change; and that is the God within us.

All idea of separation is bondage, that of non-differentiation is Mukti. Let not the words of people dead-drunk with worldliness terrify you. Be

fearless; ignore the ordinary critics as worms.

Where should you go to seek for God — are not all the poor, the miserable, the weak, Gods? Why not worship them first? Why go to dig a well on the shores of the Ganga.

Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence & mercy in the world and thus, become pure and perfect. Be grateful to the man you help, think of him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellowmen

Each soul is potentially Divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work or worship or psychic control or philosophy- by one or more all of these- and be free. This is the whole of RELIGION. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Be cheerful. . . . Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, “boss” others. Be the servant of all.

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.

Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame.

Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow— never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin— to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul, “at my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

That is the one test of truth. It never decays, it is always the same.

Stop creation and you know the truth. All power of creation must stop, and then you know the truth at once.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? unselfish even unto death? and loving? Then fear not, not even death. Onward, my lads.

In truth everything is established.

Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right Truth must triumph.

Stamp out the negative spirit as if it were a pestilence.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as you’re thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes – this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.

Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way adsorb it; do not become others.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth

The very reason for nature’s existence is for the education of the soul.

You are the creator of your own destiny.

Throw away all weaknesses. tell your body that it is strong. Tell your mind that it is strong and have unbound faith and hope in yourself.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

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

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

If you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Come out of your narrow holes and have a look abroad.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

Don’t look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.

They alone live, who live for others.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

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.

Have faith in yourself – all power is in you. Even the poison of a snake is powerless, if you can firmly deny it.

Each work has to pass through these stages – ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

Be the servant while leading. Be unselfish. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world tolerance & universal acceptance. we believe not only in universal toleration but we accept all religions as true.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you, if you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

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

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.

He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.

Talk to yourself at least once in a day. Otherwise, you may miss a meeting with an excellent person in this world.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations.

Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the almighty, omnipresent, divine principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.

Take risks in your life, if you win, you can lead! if you lose, you can guide

Never say no, Never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. All the power is within you. You can do anything.

No life will be a failure; there is no such thing as failure in the universe. A hundred times man will hurt himself, a thousand times he will tumble, but in the end he will realism that he is God.

All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults.

If you don’t learn to Control your Thoughts, you will ever learn how to contol your Behavior.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

Conquer yourself and the whole universe is yours.

Always try to represent yourself as happy. Initially, it becomes your look, gradually it becomes your habit and finally it becomes your personality.

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

When you are doing any work, do it as worship, as the highest. worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.