Dayananda Saraswati

Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.

What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.

The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.

People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.