Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

What do you want to do sadhana for? The aim should not be the satisfaction of egoism: "I want to be a great yogi; I shall have so much power and with that power I shall establish myself in the world." All such thoughts must be thrown far away.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

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.

And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.