2. Contradictions abound as the conflicting mind throws up thoughts galore. Harmony in realisation rests in the vision of oneness free.
3. When times are treacherous, the faithful stay. The faithless betray their soulless state and desert their station due to them. Now where, my friend, we do stand? Reflect, reflect.
4. Money is the means of physical survival, never so of spiritual sustenance. Seek not with heart earthly attire for denuded we must stand before long.
5. Is spirituality attained so easily? No, it is an arduous process, a long and winding path along a razor's edge leading to the summit.
6. Must we celebrate today that Gurudev is 101 years old? Sure, we must along lines of service to the one God that matters most, Man.
7. He joined the Order to serve man and in suffering humanity felt his God as Ketaki Maharaj had shown the way. Happy birthday, Gurudev!
8. Sloppiness of thinking must go from the nation. We need accuracy, exactitude, the killer instinct to deliver the coup de grace in any situation.
9. The life of a nation is in its masses. Their material condition must be raised and culture disseminated them for dignified living.
10. India needs military might to stop China from bullying her and Pakistan from being the constant irritant across the border.
11. A little learning lends vanity enough to one incapable of restraining passions to, yet, sit in judgement over age-old spiritual culture.
12. Every moment is a horizon in time ever unfolding to but recede in the depths of remotest memory past.
13. The call of the wild beckons the soul
Unto primeval times of forest green,
The call of God ushers one
Unto the Self, ever unseen.
14. Levity, this utter loss of seriousness in life has made a mockery of the quest for Truth and reduced philosophy to plaything.
15. Beneath the civilised man is a savage man, ready to spring at you at a moment's notice. Deep within lies the divine man.
16. The sannyasi is the testimony of the Divine, the testament of God unto man.
17. Where the heart yields not, there do not give in ; where the heart yields well, there discriminate.
18. Common talk is good, cultured conversation better, spiritual discussion the best. But the Real lies beyond thought and speech.
19. The Jesus the Hindus will absorb as future deity must be a modified one in line with traditional Hindu thinking. Om Christa!
20. Man either grows through renunciation or decays through enjoyment. The balance between energy gained and energy spent is wondrous. It is a case of near-perfect equilibrium with slight asymmetry to make room for the dynamics of life and leela (divine play). The entry point and the exit points in Maya demand slight aberrations in an otherwise near-perfect web of causal relations. Thus, surface determinism gives way to depth probability as the causal links give way to the wider spaces opening up for quantum leaps to occur whence flows freedom in its eventual transit from the subtlest peels of phenomena to the core nothingness of the origin. It is the summation of events, forces, energy and mass which is the vast void.
21. The Europeans put on the facade of civilisation and despoiled nations at will. Colonialism, the modern barbarism!
22. Self-promotion is not the goal, propagation of the ideal and the life and message of the one who represents it is. Jai Netaji! Jai Hind!
23. May we honour Netaji by abstaining from abuse in upholding his cause, for culture must not be compromised in seeking justice!
24. Sectarianism must be an episode of the past and character the call of the hour as we wend our way towards a global community.
25. How can ye have spiritual worldliness or worldly spirituality? The two are incompatibles. Renunciation is the soul of spirituality.
26. He lit the light of freedom, then receded unto his ethereal realm. But the ignition he caused blew the empire off and set colonised peoples free. Who was he?
27. Those that constantly clamour for justice against governmental misdeeds done are well within their right to do so but would serve the nation better if they would sink in their ploughshare to the work of nation-building too, forgetting self and gain, for the teeming millions must be raised not by sheer clamour, mere slogans or self-sustenance of any kind but by the manifestation of character that can withstand the onslaughts of the times and the exigencies of self-preservation.
28. It's been a revelation that dynastic tradition abounds here as well as sycophancy is a trait common among the spineless.
29. Creating self-importance is the sure sign of suffering from a sense of inadequacy.
30. The selfish mind blames others for faults of its own and makes life miserable for them.
31. The world is scorched with the rays of hate,
Lord, flood the light of love to save.
32. They play a game,
Then forget the same.
The Real eludes
The form and name.
33. The helmet is,
Where is the head?
The grass lives on,
The man is dead.
34. A great threat to civilisation today is the progressive decline of culture. Mediocrity rules the roost everywhere.
35. In a declining cultural scene and increasing capitalistic exploitation, life runs at fever pitch any moment to explode.
36. In the brutal struggle for survival
In a world vitiated by gain,
Patience is at its lowest ebb
As men collide in pain.
37. Evil has one thing common to it always, everywhere. It relies on lies for its thriving.
38. 'Myself last', as Swamiji put it, ought to be the guiding principle of our social living. Only then may we thrive as a nation.
39. A little bit of virtue practised, as the Geeta says, dispels great fear.
40. Great souls are grateful. Ingratitude is the trait of the traitor to virtue.
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