Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?

Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom.

Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. ... You forget the body. ... You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.

Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work.