Letter to Miss Mary Hale. From New York

What! Measure my soul according to what the bond-slaves of the world say?--Pooh! Sister, you do not know the sannyāsin. "He stands on the heads of the Vedas!" say the Vedas, because he is free from churches and sects and religions and prophets and books and all that ilk!

I pray that none may be dragged anywhere by the unseen power of his or her own past actions. I pray that all may be free, that is to say, may know that they are free. And if they are to dream again, let us pray that their dreams be all of peace and bliss.