The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.