- The Coming Era
We have had times where theory ruled - it was barren and impotent. There have been times where power has ruled ruthless and demoniacal. What we need today is control, not in theory but in practice, control to restrain. Religion alone can give us this.
- Light and Power
Suffering is the name which the pleasure-seeking self gives to the "process of purification". It is like ashes accumulating over the fire - the wind blows them off. The wind is "suffering". But for the wind, the ashes
would smother the fire. From the Action of the wind as from "suffering", Light and Power are born.
- Self-culture
The point at which service and self-culture meet is yoga. I serve to rediscover my own Self in All.
- Remember
We remember what we want to remember.
Apart from a specific inability, like remembering names or numbers, we will not forget something that we want to remember.
- Influences on Man
Man is influenced by heredity, upbringing, parents, company, and so on. The word influence is important. Man is already there - birth after birth. He is the evolving soul. The others only influence him. To what extent he can be influenced or what he will accept or reject, depends upon his own samskaras, brought forward from past births.