“The expression “from above” is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action – we call it intuition.”

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

Stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.

No danger can perturb my spirit’s calm.

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter,