"History is full of instances, wherein, victory would have been to the vanquished, if only they had battled a little longer! We often fail for lack of perseverance in our efforts. We leave our work half done in our impatience. Every job demands its quota of efforts. Never give up too soon."

"Prosperity is like wine, which goes to the head, and makes man forget his Creator."

"The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything."

"The secret of action is to get established in equanimity, renouncing all egocentric attachments, and forgetting to worry over our successes and failures."

"To listen is not merely to hear. We in life, hear but very rarely do we know how to listen. To Listen is to hear, with an intellectual alertness and attention of awareness."

"To give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery."

"To define God is to defile God."

"The greatness in an ideology is not, in fact, in the ideology; but it is in the subject which lives that ideology."

"Out of purity and silence come words of power."

"The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall."

"When opportunity knocks, We are either out or sleeping in."

"Seek the Lord In the smiles of your friends, In the glow of angry eyes, In the storms of passion. He is everywhere, in everything."

"The real men of achievement are people who have the heroism to fuel more and more enthusiasm in their work, when they face more and more difficulties."

"To be patient means to suffer something that hinders or hurts us, and still retain our self-composure. *How many difficulties, with their consequent unpleasantness and discord, could be smoothed over and almost entirely eliminated by patience. Patience always elevates and strengthens our character. We need it not only with others but also with ourselves."

"Character is formed from the repeated choice of thoughts and action. Make the right choice - You shall have a firm and noble character."

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

"Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell."

"There is no companion like solitude. One who knows how to tune himself to the inner silence, even in the midst of the din and roar of the marketplace, enjoys a most recreative solitude."

"Yoga is skill in action."

"When the time of judgement comes, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done."

"Comfort - Comes as Guest, Lingers to become Host and stays to ENSLAVE us."

"Every body dies, nobody dies."

"Faults become thick when love is thin."

"Introspect daily, detect diligently, negate ruthlessly."

"The cultured give happiness wherever they go. The uncultured whenever they go."

"The highest form of grace is silence."

"Out of purity and silence come the words of power."

"Substitute wisely, grow steadily and be free."

"Brood less, smile more and serve all."

"What you have is His gift to you; what you do with what you have is your gift to Him."

"To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness."

"Live morality before you talk to him. Practicing meditation before you preach. Goodness taste before you recommend. Gain bliss before you offer to others."

"Faith is belief in what I do not know now, so I can come soon enough for what I believe in."

"Whatever the man of realization is the moral code for us to follow. The qualities of his actions are the standards by which the world determines its sense of justice, the concept of Dharma."

"Do the best and leave the rest."

"Divinity should not be given to you from somewhere else. The Upanishad thunders "Thou Art That."

"In The Art of Man-making: Talks on the Bhagavad Geeta, p. 54"

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

"Success or achievement is not the final goal. It is the 'spirit' in which you act that puts the seal of beauty upon your life."

"Efficiency is the capacity to bring proficiency into expression."

"Do you know the essence of Vedanta?” he asked in a booming voice and himself gave the answer, “Undress and embrace” he thundered. People were nonplussed. He chuckled and explained, “Undress the body, mind and intellect. What remains is automatically in the embrace with OM, the pure awareness.”"

"But the boy who left the hall was not the boy who had gone in some ten minutes before. After my college days, my political work, and after my years of stay at Uttarkashi at the feet of my master, Tapovanam I knew that what I gained on the Ganges banks was that which had been given to me years before by the saint of Tiruvannamalai on that hot summer day – by a mere look"

"The guru is nothing but pure consciousness, Bliss and eternal wisdom."

"At the Ashram I was told that the Maharshi was in the hall and anybody was free to walk in and see him. As I entered, I saw on the couch an elderly man, wearing but a loincloth, reclining against a round bolster. I sat down at the very foot of the couch. The Maharshi suddenly opened his eyes and looked straight into mine: I looked into his. A mere look, that was all. I felt that the Maharshi was, in that split moment, looking deep into me – and I was sure that he saw all my shallowness, confusions, faithlessness, imperfections, and fears. I cannot explain what happened in that one split moment. I felt opened, cleaned, healed, and emptied! A whirl of confusions: my atheism dropping away, but scepticism flooding in to question, wonder, and search. My reason gave me strength and I said to myself, ‘It is all mesmerism, my own foolishness.’ Thus assuring myself, I got up and walked away."

"When flutist Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia plays raagas on his bansuri the notes are not just heard but also felt!"

"The flutist's fan following cuts across all barriers and borders, Myriam."

"We are not mere friends, but more than two brothers. We met more than 50 years ago and we share a very beautiful bond between us. We worked together for films and immensely popular discs like Call of the Valley."