“As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.”

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality – about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.

The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.

Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

That is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice.

Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.

Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.

Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action.

At this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme. Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind’s agitations, vikshepas are quietened.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.