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"The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti."
"In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness."
"Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate."
"Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!"
"Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature."
"There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others."
"The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity."
"To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant."
"The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the Westerners call the soul. It takes interest in the movements of the mind and the vital only when there is a harmony between these movements and the truth above. The knowledge of the psychic being is deeper."
"Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes."
"What have I to forgive and whom?"
"Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success."
"Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow."
"The Truth-power must be brought down from above into that state of peace, and this higher power - Parashakti - will directly guide the vehicle - ādhāra - and transform it."
"Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back."
"Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all."
"Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge."
"Do not allow things to intrude from outside."
"Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty."
"A woman has the greatest opportunity to provide the best outcome for a baby and its potentialities. Not only by having a conscious and definite will to form the child accordingly to the highest ideal she can conceive, but first and foremost having the aspiration to work on herself."