2nd May 2023- It is ordained by Mother we work together; it has been already for the good of many; it shall be for the good of many more; so let it be. It is useless planning, useless high flights; Mother will find Her own way.
3rd May 2023- Control the mind, cut off the senses, then you are a yogi; after that, all the rest will come. Refuse to hear, to see, to smell, to taste; take away the mental power from the external organs. You continually do it unconsciously as when your mind is absorbed; so you can learn to do it consciously. The mind can put the senses where it pleases. Get rid of the fundamental superstition that we are obliged to act through the body. We are not.
8th May 2023- Stand up, men and women, in this spirit, dare to believe in the Truth, dare to practice the Truth! the world requires a few hundred bold men and women. Practice that boldness which dares know the Truth, which dares show the Truth in life, which does not quake before death, nay, welcomes death, makes you know that you are the Spirit, that, in the whole universe, nothing can kill you. Then you will be free. Then you will know your real Soul. “This Atman is first to be heard, then thought about and the meditated upon.”
11th May 2023- As human beings we see that all our knowledge is referred to consciousness. My consciousness of this table, and of your presence, makes me know that the table and you are here. At the same time, there is a very great part of my existence of which I am not conscious. All the different organs inside the body, the different parts of the brain- nobody is conscious of these.
12th May 2023- Wherever and whenever a desire, a want, or a prayer has been fulfilled, it was out of this infinite storehouse of power within us that the supply came, and not from any supernatural being.
16th May 2023- I worry about everything except you. I have dedicated you to the mother. She is your shield, your guide. No harm can reach you–nothing hold you down a minute. I know it.
17th May 2023– while at school, one night I was meditating within closed doors and had a fairly deep concentration of mind. How long I meditated in that way, I can’not say. It was over, and I still kept my seat, when from the southern wall of that room a luminous figure stepped out and stood in front of me. There was a wonderful radiance on its face, yet there seemed to be no play of emotion on it. It was the figure of a Sannyasin absolutely calm, shaven-headed, with a staff and kamandalu (wooden water-bowl) in hand. He grazed at me for some time and seemed as if he would address me. I too grazed at him in speechless wonder. Then a kind of fright seized me, I opened the door, and hurried out of the room. Then it struck me that it was foolish of me to run away like that, that perhaps he might say something to me. But I have never met that figure since. Many a time and often I have thought that if again I saw him, I would no more be afraid but speak to him. But I met him no more.
19th May 2023– Go into your own room and get the Upanishads out of your own self. You are the greatest boom that ever was or ever will be, the infinite depository of all that is. Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in vain. It must lead to the opening of the book of the heart to have any value.
22th May 2023– The authority of the vedas extends to all ages climes and persons; that is to say, their application is not confined to any particular place, time, and persons.
24th May 2023- When the mind is purified, when one is free from the attachment for lust and gold, one sees lots of visions, most wonderful ones! But one should not pay heed to them. The spiritual seeker cannot advance further if he sets his mind constantly on them. Haven’t you heard that Sri Ramakrishna used to say, “Countless jewels lie uncared for in the outer courts of my beloved Lord’s sanctum”? We must come face to face with the Atman; what is the use of setting one’s mind on vagaries like those?
25th May 2023- The cause of all miseries we have in the world is that we foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time we find that it is not happiness, but knowledge, toward which we are going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that we learn as much from evil as from good.
26th May 2023- Language is the vehicle of ideas. It is the ideas that are of prime importance, language comes after that.
27th May 2023- Give up all fruits of work. Do good for its own sake. Then alone will come perfect non-attachment. The bonds of the heart will thus break and we shall reap perfect freedom. This freedom is indeed the goal of karma yoga.
30th May 2023- Talk not about impurity, but say that we are pure. We have hypnotized ourselves into this thought that we are little, that we are born, and that we are going to die, and into a constant state of fear.