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"God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one's activities."
"Do not be eager for things above."
"Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work."
"Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind."
"On the top of the head is a Chakra - Sahasradala or the thousand-petalled lotus. There is a Chakra in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows and one in the heart-centre. The region between the navel and head constitutes the mental field. From navel downward extending till the terminus of the spinal chord, mūlādhāra, is the seat of the vital."
"To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature."
"To feed death with her works is here life's doom."
"Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?""
"Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow."
"There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err."
"New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts."
"What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn."