If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.

The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

We are what our thoughts have made us