The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.

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

Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.

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

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.