You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds

Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.

The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.