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.

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin.

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.

Those who have advanced rise to the mind which is in the head, - they have the play of their mental movements in the head itself. But all these are inside the body; man is, as it were, shut up in a box, his entire consciousness is confined within the organism. This imprisonment has to be undone.