This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

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.

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.

Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.