2. Necessity is the religion of the common man, such is the state of society today. A handful steal the bread of billions.
3. Ramakrishna's radical ideas are being conveniently forgotten for they are discomforting to 'devotees'. Hail dilution of Truth!
4. Being a devotee is not an institutional certification. It is the complete effacement of the ego and absorption in God thereof.
5. Great souls are those that are grateful.
6. Live to learn, and learn to love, then love to live.
7. Be fearless, for freedom is already yours. You are eternally free, just affirm it with force.
8. It is an image world of an image God. Now cast off all the dross and be the Self that real shines in the Void that is.
9. Mother will feed Her children with Her love manifested as prasad. Now join in this celebration to build the dining 'shrine'.
10. This myth of outer personality never realises God. It merely dissolves before the Self-realisation of God by God.
11. Suffering in life can be much assuaged by acceptance of such as part of the divine play.
12. Self-promotion is opposed to spirituality whose objective is self-annihilation in the Divine. Hence, the need for self-abnegation.
13. Asceticism is the sine qua non of spirituality whose absence is destroying the spiritual orders of the day.
14. Spirituality must make no compromise with worldliness. If it does, it will be 'dharmaglaani' which only the Avatar can redress.
15. There is so much suffering in this world and so little that I can do about it. But we can collectively make a difference.
16. The combination of goodness can thwart evil to a large extent. This is the classical war between the gods and the demons which the gods must win. But the scales are tilted now as then against the gods. It will require the descent of the Divine again in our midst to set the rudder right. The layman and the monastic have both lost their spiritual bearing and we are living in times of a great spiritual vacuum when people are frantically searching for an ideal but cannot find one that will quench their thirst and lead them on to peace and blessedness. The ideal is there in our scriptures and in the manifested personalities of our sages and saints, our Avatars and Acharyas, but men and women are seeking a fresher articulation in a seminal being whose life will be shorn of self-interest of any kind, cleared of the dross of political contamination or personal alliance with the prosperous even if for the fruition of a wider social objective, one who ill stand barely on Truth and nothing else. Such a one will fresh inspire the youth of the land and in every land this time, and will bring about a renaissance of the dormant human spirit to meet the challenges of the times. The past movements are all compromised more or less and one sadly once more recalls Swami Vivekananda's words to Miss Margaret Elizabeth Noble, later, Sister Nivedita : 'Religions of the world have become lifeless mockeries. What the world wants is character.'
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