Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself."

I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Renunciation is in our blood.

The road to salvation is through truth.

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.