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

What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue." He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice!

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.