What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy!

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come out and manifest itself. Therefore, this shraddha is what I want, and what all of us here want, this faith in ourselves, and before you is the great task to get that faith. Give up the awful disease that is creeping, into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.

Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.