There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself.

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the Godward endeavour of the human spirit. An immense many-sided many-staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.