1. Bless them Thakur those that revile you, bless them that defile your image in the myriad gods and goddesses that abound as humans. May their consciousness reveal unto them their oneness with all! May they see the divine in them who they despise! May the earth be a place where gods and goddesses play their divine sport even in apparent oblivion! But such a state shall never be and we shall have to purge our vision of the dross that sullies it rather than seek external amendments. The ocean shall swell and fall in alternate rhythms and the water will disperse and gather in unending cycles keeping the flow on. And through it all shall the soul learn to swim ashore to the end whence there is no return while the game goes on for the others till awakening comes. Thus the saga goes on, thus the play is enacted through eternity.
2. Power is lodged in the soul, seek it not elsewhere. O man, look within, for there lies the empire of the Self.
3. Egotism is the root of all evil, this obsession with the lower self. Pride, vanity and arrogance all spring from exclusive identification with the psycho-physiological entity that is evident as our apparent being on the surface and lead to a culture of self-sustenance to the exclusion of others causing immense human harm. The pursuit of peace, thus, must begin with the austerity that calls for rooting out the lower self and the supplanting of it by the vaster identification with the true Self of man which is also the core of the cosmos.
4. To strike off the fetters imposed upon by man or Nature or any arbitrary authority is my birthright. This is the core of the Sanatan Dharma. Break free of all fetters and stand clean in the sunshine of the life divine.
5. The Vedanta is the Way for it alone declares in trumpet voice the absolute glory of Man.
6. Let men be pure ; spirituality will spontaneously follow.
7. Science has to be encouraged to combat theocratic fanaticism. Common sense and sublime idealism made practical has then to combat the evils of science.
8. Scholars and savants are so often spiritually so impoverished and hardly know the inner way. Strange is this stratification in the realm of knowledge where the intellect truly dares not peep into the secrets of the heavens nor can raise itself sufficiently to get a glimpse of the beyond, for to do so will be to erase itself altogether. Small wonder is it then that the Vedas unambiguously give utterance to this organic incapacity of the material intellect to transcend the meshes of matter and ramble in the realm divine. The emphasis has ever been that the Absolute is beyond the reach of the finite mind and its articulation thereof. The Indian scriptures in this sense have dug up their own graves and the graves of all other scriptures as well. Truth does in no way suffer, though, for it subsists in its own glory, self-existent, supreme, without a tinge of personality affecting it to seek the ratification of the latter for its survival. Truth simply abides and all things abide in it as pale parallels of it. Meanwhile, scholars have read more in the interim period that has passed and their ignorance about matters of the Spirit have become worse confounded. Strange stratification indeed!
9. Life will have to be built on the basis of character pure and simple, else, all this talk, these platitudes, these high-sounding principles, theorised and not lived, will in vain be.
10. We are at the crossroads of culture globally today. There is a choice between absolute ends, survival or extinction. Upon our judgement rests our fate. The path bifurcates hereon. Desire will lead to doom, discrimination to perpetuation of the species. The Upanishads offer the guideline.
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