I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.