Salvation...

"The vanities of all others may gradually die out,

but the vanity of a saint as regards his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away….

When does a man get his salvation?

When his egoism dies."



Sri Ramakrishna
in F. Max Muller
_Ramakrishna: His Life And Sayings_, 318, 333
Longmans, Green, And Co., London & New York, 1898, p. 172, 176