India saw from the beginning, - and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, - that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

Do not belong to the past dawns,but to the noons of future

In order to satisfy the vital being, it must be offered some activity, and at the same time the mind should be slowly made to take interest in yoga.

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti.