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If communism ever reestablishes itself successfully upon earth, it must be on a foundation of soul's brotherhood and the death of egoism. A forced association and a mechanical comradeship would end in a world-wide fiasco.
Spirituality is not necessarily exclusive; it can be and in its fullness must be all-inclusive.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
What is God after all ? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
Thoughts and Glimpses (1916)
In Kashmir, the Hindus had all the monopoly. Now if the Muslim demands are acceded to, the Hindus will be wiped out.
Everywhere there is, at most, only a beginning of beginnings.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
There are two ways of avoiding the snare of woman; one is to shun all women and the other to love all beings.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
All can be done if the god-touch is there.
Savitri (1918)
Indian Art demands of the artist the power of communion with the soul of things, the sense of spiritual taking precedence of the sense of material beauty, and fidelity to the deeper vision within...
A memory steals in from lost heavens of Truth,
A wide release comes near, a Glory calls,
A might looks out, an estranged felicity.
Savitri (1918)
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
What is vice but an enslaving habit and virtue but a human opinion? See God and do His will; walk in whatever path He shall trace for thy goings.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
To attempt to penetrate through the indeterminate confusion of present tendencies and first efforts in order to foresee the exact forms the new creation will take, would be an effort of very doubtful utility.
The Renaissance in India (1918)
If thy aim be great and thy means small, still act; for by action alone these can increase to thee.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Suffer yourself to be tempted within so that you may exhaust in the struggle your downward propensities.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
The whole world is my seraglio and every living being and inanimate existence in it is the instrument of my rapture.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Mankind has used two powerful weapons to destroy its own powers and enjoyment, wrong indulgence and wrong abstinence.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Hate not the oppressor, for, if he is strong, thy hate increases his force of resistance; if he is weak, thy hate was needless.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
Even when one has climbed up into those levels of bliss where pain vanishes, it still survives disguised as intolerable ecstasy.
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)