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

Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. Politics, power, and even intellect form a secondary consideration here. Religion, therefore, is the one consideration in India.

Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.