After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion.

Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.