Welling in a body like the air-ships of the gods, he tastes boundless joys freely presented to him. The knower of the Suprene SELF is a child obedient to a higher will; he is of form unmanifest, untouched by allurement.… The Silent Sage
Act thou for them “today,” and they will act for thee “tomorrow.” ’Tis from the bud of Renunciation of the Self, that springeth the sweet fruit of final Liberation. To perish doomed is he, who out of fear of Māra refrains from… Renunciation
What is the will? Can “exact science” tell? What is the nature of that intelligent, intangible, and powerful something which reigns supreme over all inert matter? The great Universal Idea willed, and the cosmos sprang into existence. I will, and my limbs… Attraction and Repulsion
He knows no change who knows the true, And on it keeps his eye, Who always still the unseen doth view; Only the false and the apparent die. Things change, but change not far From what they are not but… He Knows No Change
What a handful of dust is man to think such thoughts! Or is he, perchance, a prince in misfortune, whose speech at times betrays his birth? I like to think that, if men are machines, they are machines of a… The Banner of Becoming
By the sun and his midday brightness; by the moon, which rises after him; by the day, which reveals his splendour; by the night, which veils him! By the heaven and Him that moulded it and inspired it with knowledge… Purity and Corruption
There are six forces—hearing, pondering, mindfulness, awareness, effort and intimacy. These forces affect the nine stages of thought that lead to one-pointedness of mind. First, by the force of hearing, thought focuses upon the object of meditation. Merely hearing from… One-Pointedness
Lord, make me an instrument of thy Peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is… Dying to the Self
All consciousness is a kind of attention. It begins the moment we awake from sleep, though it is partially present in our dreams. It began in our infancy when we first took notice of forms around us. At that time,… Mindfulness
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute. A man’s… The Thought-Factor in Achievement
Much sorrow of man comes from his efforts, in imperfect understanding of his own nature, to crowd his universal life into his personal experience, to grasp and realize with the functions of the finite the suggestions of the infinite. He… Infinitude and Incompletion
“Lift thy head, oh Lanoo; dost thou see one, or countless lights above thee, burning in the dark midnight sky?” “I sense one Flame, oh Gurudeva, I see countless undetached sparks shining in it.” “Thou sayest well. And now look around… Lift Thy Head Oh Lanoo