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

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one's activities.

The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above the navel and behind the chest is the centre of the play of emotions and below this takes place the play of the physical. Mulādhāra is the base of the physical. In between the Mulādhāra and the navel, there is another centre of the vital.