Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.

I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.

What we want now is an immense awakening of Râjasika energy, for the whole country is wrapped in the shroud of Tamas. The people of this land must be fed and clothed-must be awakened -must be made more fully active. Otherwise they will become inert, as inert as trees and stones. So, I say, eat large quantities of fish and meat, my boy!

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.