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.

To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest.

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.