The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.

The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration.

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

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

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.