Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

The truths of Upanishadas are before you. Take them up, live up to them, and the salvation of Bharat will be at hand.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

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

The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful

Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

The body cannot be the soul.

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

There is no virtue higher than non-injury.