If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems ….

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change..

There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads..

The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled..

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned..

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool..

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, ….

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child..

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place..

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last on….

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else..

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so….

In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for ….

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it….

In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confi….

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires..

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss..

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love..

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness..

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy..

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up..