One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.