Strength is life, Weakness is death.


"If the poor cannot come to education, education must go to them."


Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was the only man who ever had the courage to say that we must speak to all men in their own language!'


All souls are playing, some consciously, some unconsciously. Religion is learning to play consciously.


We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.




The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.


Lovers see this world as full of love, and haters as full of hatred; fighters see nothing but strife, and the peaceful nothing but peace. The perfect man sees nothing but God.


The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, (when it) gives everything.


A sadguru is one on whom the spiritual power has descended by guru-parampara or an unbroken chain of discipleship.


The guru must teach me and lead me into light, make me a link in that chain of which he himself is a link.


As you repeat the name of your guru and Ishta, say Peace be to all creatures and the universe!'


All gurus are one and are fragments and radiations of God, the Universal Guru.


The relation of Guru and disciple in the domain of religion will for ever exist between India and the rest of the world.

         - Swami Vivekananda


"The guru is like a matchmaker. A matchmaker arranges for the union of the bride with the bridegroom. Likewise, a guru prepares for the meeting of the individual soul with his Beloved, the Divine Spirit.

       - Sri Ramakrishna



If you want peace, do not find fault with others. Rather see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; the whole world is your own.

       - Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi


Salutations to that Guru, who with the help of collyrium of knowledge gives eyesight to one who is blinded by ignorance. 


Salutations to Sri Guru, who burns down the bondage of karma acquired in many births by the power of the fire of knowledge.

           - Guru Gita


There is no greater guru than your own mind. When the mind has been purified by prayer and contemplation, it will direct you from within. Even in your daily duties, this inner guru will guide you and will continue to help you until the goal is reached.


No matter how clever or how intelligent a man may be, without the aid of an illumined guide he is sure to stumble on the way. 

           - Swami Brahmananda


You have a misconception regarding the guru in that you look upon him as a person. By 'guru' we mean that divine power which teaches us everything from the ABCs to the knowledge of Brahman. 

           - Swami Premeshananda