TWEETS GALORE ... 20

1. Barbarians had come into India in the form of Turks, Afghans and Mughals, and violated our women in the name of conquest.

2. Mother, it is everywhere you who suffer!

3. Ought we to discontinue the practice of conferring the posthumous Bharat Ratna? Of what avail is it when the awardee is gone?

4. I struggled against a chess master to resign in the end. And this is life. Few, alas, so very few conquer! Yet, the struggle must be.

5. It is not too late as yet to attempt to realise God, for the season is still on and fruition yet a pregnant possibility.

6. The oceanic depth of the sarod in Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's hands is a spiritual experience to savour and cherish.

7. Who to teach? Who will listen? Everybody knows everything. This is the sad tale of it all.

8. Service rendered in a spirit of humility becomes an act of worship. Such an attitude in consistence leads to illumination.

9. To have faith in oneself and persevere in one's art is the hallmark of the great. Fruition comes in due course.

10. Sometimes mediocrity rises to apparent excellence through sheer hard work. A touch of talent and you have your 'genius'.

11. One lives by intrigue, the other by inspiration. Both ways are open with their respective ends.

12. Cling to delusion and hope for the best. It will be a fool's paradise lost. Awake and conquer delusion itself.

13. Life is a string of hopes and disillusionment ending in an inconsequential end. Now rise to lend meaning to life.

14. The disturbance created by one is felt by many. Be tranquil to counteract this environmental disequilibrium.

15. We are all being drawn inexorably towards death, yet we desperately cling to life. Few alone, alas, swim to safety.

16. Worry kills a person more than work kills.

17. Some people, their sympathies are limited. Others have overflowing love for all. A curious mix is this world.

18. Is ritual violence compatible with piety?

19. The man of peace is the man of God.

20. There can be no spiritual uplift without a prior cultural enrichment.

21. Hindus have in the past been converted en masse to Islam. A day will come when the reverse will happen and the Sanatan Dharma will triumph.

22. Hinduism is not a religion. It is a philosophical-ethical system based on the spiritual realisation of countless sages. It is the dharma, the Sanatan Dharma.

23. Teach your child with care and the future citizen will be ready.

24. There is waste on one side, want on the other. Think before you spend. Give to the needy what you would otherwise waste.

25. A high degree of rajas is the need of the hour and it must tend to sattva. Only then will the world rise.

26. The masses in India are steeped in terrible tamas and whatever rajas is evident in the affluent is tainted with selfishness.

27. Much of propagated literature on historical episodes is unreliable for the victor in war ever documents his preferred version.

28. Brutal women do as much harm to the world as brutal men. Brutality knows no gender.

29. Do not destroy the talent in your house through your tyranny. Let it flourish.

30. Self-justification at any rate is the worst form of self-delusion.

31. Even in the family there is a master and a slave. Whither freedom? Whither human rights?

32. The strain on the nerves is enormous. Yet, man must continue in his quest for truth and perfection.

33. Is there a way out of this jigsaw puzzle of a world? Yes, there is, and that is the only hope as we struggle on.

34. Of what avail is this brief flicker of a life if it be not for the purpose of a deeper end that is of momentous significance?

35. A new world order will emerge out of the chaos of the times, one fraught with the universal values of ancient India, of the Vedanta.

36. There is so much life all around us, yet we seek God in inanimate things or above the sky in an imaginary heaven.

37. Those that worship the Avatar actually approximate the truest worship of God better than those who render service to an extra-cosmic imaginary being.

38. Liberalism is the outpouring of a common love for all felt in the heart of the sincere seeker of truth. It cannot be affected.

39. How can even a Hindustani classical vocalist attempt to perform on the platform when she cannot even sing to tune? Whither 'sur'?

40. The rise of the shudra (proletariat) before their having appropriated the culture of the higher classes is a most dangerous proposition for it will lead to a violent degradation of the same.