The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.