Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.

The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the Westerners call the soul. It takes interest in the movements of the mind and the vital only when there is a harmony between these movements and the truth above. The knowledge of the psychic being is deeper.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.