In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.