“Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing “noses on us,” as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. “Self is the Saviour of self, none else.””

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher. That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear’. Tell this to everybody-‘Have no fear’.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness

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.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

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

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.