REMARK OFF THE CUFF ... 6

1. Aye, public servant, that's the term. Do not make such your political master. The citizen is no less than the CM, the public no less than the PM. Where might of the masses is concerned and its brute power exhibited in rallies and in the streets, it has more to do with old imperialism than with modern enlightened democracy. The same dictum rules till date : Might is right, and what a pity at that!

2. I am not merely devoted to the God of India but I am devoted to the God that is India, for I am a son of the soil.

3. Let the Impersonal be preached and not so much the Personal, for the former liberates, the latter misread, binds.

4. Tranquil is the mind that sees the Truth, yet, the mind must dissolve into nothingness for Truth to reveal.

5. The body blocks vision, that granite fortress refuses to yield before the insufficient aspiration of the soul. The Guru alone may lead now through this labyrinth of Maya, through this maze of a myriad dreams where life slips away and death looms large even as eventide sets in.

6. Fame, dirty fame, fraught with self-debasement! Desire despicable of establishment in other's eye! Seek substance in the Self.

7. Show me one politician with credentials of character to uphold the interests of the people. All are compromised to selfish gain. And, why so? For the nation as a whole is recovering from a thousand year state of servitude which has debilitated its character and rendered sterile all the fountains of love, of fellow-feeling and mutual goodwill. It is now a case pure and simple of self-preservation at the expense of one's neighbour

8. The foundation of work for the nation must be spiritual, for the spirit of service and sacrifice must be its hallmark.

9. The ideal of love is all-inclusive. The least sign of exclusion in love is a sure sign of the degeneration of the heart.

10. One must not give in to 'spiritual teachers' who dilute the ideal of renunciation and seek a compromise with the world.