Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.

Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There is a cloud shedding its rain on all fields alike. But it is only the field that is well cultivated, which gets the advantage of the shower; another field, which has not been tilled or taken care of cannot get that advantage. It is not the fault of the cloud.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.