Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

Differentiation is in name and form only.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

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