Right Proportion
Let man consider who he is and what he should and must become… Man needs more than common intelligence to know who he is; only he who studies him properly and knows whence he comes and who he is will… Right Proportion
Jewels of Wisdom
City of the Soul
Holy men dance and wheel on the spiritual battlefield. They dance in their own blood. When they are freed from the dominion of self, they clap a hand; When they transcend their own imperfections, they make a dance. From within… City of the Soul
The Workshop of Souls
A song of the rolling earth, and the words according. Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots? No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the ground and sea.… The Workshop of Souls
Becoming Awake
Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering? They are not such poor calculators. If they had not been overcome… Becoming Awake
Tranquility
One who was suffering tumult in his soul Yet failed to seek the sure relief of prayer, Went forth—his course surrendering to the care Of fierce wind, while mid-day lightnings prowl Insiduously, untimely thunders growl; While trees, dim-seen, in frenzied… Tranquility
The Christ Soul
And now my grief I see Was but the ancient shadow part of me, Not yet attuned to good, Still blind and senseless in its warring mood, I turn from it and climb To heroic spirit of the prime, The… The Christ Soul
Dana-Tapas-Yajna
Each aspirant has to perform daily actions in the natural course of his life, using his own free will and knowledge. He has to eat to build his body as a shrine of his soul; again he has to sacrifice… Dana-Tapas-Yajna
Gratitude and Goodwill
The Sage asked the Spirit of Wisdom thus: “Which is that good work which is greater and better than all good works, and no trouble whatever is necessary for its performance?” The Spirit of Wisdom answered thus: “To be grateful… Gratitude and Goodwill
Regenerate Thyself
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains, and thou too art wont to long above all for such things. But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree, when thou canst at… Regenerate Thyself
The Sacred Dance
His form is everywhere: all pervading in His Shiva-Shakti: Chidambaram is everywhere, everywhere His dance: As Shiva is all and omnipresent, Everywhere is Shiva’s gracious dance made manifest. His fivefold dances are temporal and timeless. His fivefold dances are His… The Sacred Dance
Universal Language
Is is always necessary that the means that are to accomplish any end be equal to the accomplishment of that end, or the end cannot be accomplished. It is in this that the difference between finite and infinite power and… Universal Language
Dynamic Interaction
An organism is a continuous dynamism, a pattern of activity, basically electrochemical, but capable also of large, concerted forms of action with further priniciples of of organization. Its round of functions is continuous, and every constituent action in it, every… Dynamic Interaction