“This is the world my brother – this illusion of Maya- the Lord alone is true. The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent. All that we ever had are round us this minute, for the spirit can neither come nor go, it only changes its plane of manifestation.”
(p.500, Letters of Swami Vivekananda, Swamiji in a letter to Prof. John Henry Wright on 16th May 1896)
“Try to do everything in His name and dedicate to Him whatever work you do. Get up early every morning, spend some time in meditation and pray to Sri Guru Maharaj to enable you to do all the work in the course of the day in a detached way. In the night also, before you retire, meditate upon God and dedicate to Him all that you did in the course of the day”
(p.204-5, Mahapurush Maharaj As We Saw Him, Extracts from the diary of Prince Ravi Varma as on 16th May 1924)