Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

The body and mind are dependent.

Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.

However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.

The idol is the expression of religion.

Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.