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Freedom is a higher value than love. That’s why in India, we call the ultimate Moksha, meaning freedom. Freedom is a higher value than love. So if love is destroying freedom, it is not of worth. Love can be dropped, freedom has to be saved; freedom is a higher value. And without freedom you can never be happy; that is not possible. Freedom is the intrinsic desire of each man, each woman – utter, absolute freedom.

In a village facing a drought, the citizens requested a rainmaker to make rain for their parched fields. He agreed and requested just a solitary cottage in the open country for three days. When on the third evening abundant rain fell he told a grateful crowd “For three days all I did was to put myself in order. For once I am in order, then the world will be in order, and the drought must yield place to the rain.”

Follow the rules exactly unless you come up with something better. Always keep in mind a ruthless attachment to quality without sentimentality; true feeling and power will be there instead. Workmen in ancient Egypt dealt with one stone at a time–with its placement and relationship to the previous stone–and were not encumbered with the immortality of the finished work.

“I began some time ago to be fascinated by shells and by now have a modest collection which is very delightful for me to look at… to marvel over little creatures spending all that time making them–having the brilliant sense of design and structure to pull that off–and then having the delightful detachment to walk away into another life and leave all that beauty behind.”

“Mary, I am just beginning to fall in love with Life! There are so many things to do, so many questions to solve, so many dreams to dream.”

With every sense, every organ active, have you that tremendous peace so that nothing can disturb you? Standing on Market Street, waiting for the car with all the rush going on around you, are you in meditation — calm and peaceful? In the cave, are you intensely active there with all quiet about you? If you are, you are a Yogi, otherwise not.

"Lord Krishna is the most rounded man I know of, wonderfully developed equally in brain and heart and hand. My regard for him is for his perfect sanity. Every moment of his is alive with activity, as a gentleman, warrior, scholar, poet. This all-rounded and wonderful activity and combination of brain and heart you see in the Gita. Most wonderful heart, exquisite language, and nothing can approach it anywhere."

Nature does not manifest her laws bit by bit, an inch of gravitation today and another inch tomorrow. No, every law is complete. There is no evolution in law at all. It is given once and for ever.

That which is true must be infinite and eternal. That is the one test of truth. It never decays, it is always the same.

“That which is true must be infinite and eternal. That is the one test of truth. It never decays, it is always the same.”

“They leaned towards him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his lustre. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.”

A man journeying towards the sun, takes a photograph at each step. How different would be the first photo from the second and still more from the last, when he reaches the real sun! All these differing so widely, are true, only they are made to appear different by the changing conditions of time and space. This truth enabled Hindus to perceive the universal truth of all religions, inculcating the spirit of tolerance.

If I am God, then my soul is a temple of the Highest, and my every motion should be a worship — love for love's sake, duty for duty's sake, without hope of reward or fear of punishment. Thus my religion means expansion, and expansion means realisation and perception in the highest sense. Man is to become divine, realising the divine more and more from day to day in an endless progress.

If I’m in a dark room, no amount of protestation will make it any brighter-I must light a match. No amount of grumbling, wailing will make our imperfect body more perfect. But the Vedanta teaches call forth your soul, show your divinity. Teach your children they’re divine, that religion is positive and not a negative nonsense; that it isn’t subject to groans under oppression but expansion and manifestation.

Udana is the name of the nerve current that governs the lungs and all the upper parts of the body, and when the Yogi is master of it, he becomes light in weight. He does not sink in water; he can walk on thorns and sword blades, and stand in fire, and can depart this life whenever he likes.

The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. A pleasurable feeling is the nature of the Sattva. Everything is pleasurable to the Sâttvika man, and when this comes, know that you are progressing in Yoga. The strong, the well knit, the young, the healthy, the daring alone are fit to be Yogis.

Most of us make our minds like spoilt children, allowing them to do whatever they want. Therefore it is necessary that Kriya-yoga should be constantly practised, in order to gain control of the mind, and bring it into subjection.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm. It is easy to be active. Let the reins go, and the horses will run away with you. Anyone can do that, but he who can stop the plunging horses is the strong man. Which requires the greater strength, letting go or restraining?

The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Restraint does not come in one day, but by long continued practice.