Yes, It Is Difficult For Man To

Not In The State Of Unconsciousness, But In Full Awareness When The Higher Power Will Descend Into And Direct Us, Then Only The Yogic Life Will Begin.

The Hindu Religion Appears ... As A Cathedral Temple, Half In Ruins, Noble In The Mass, Often Fantastic In Detail But Always Fantastic With A Significance Crumbling Or Badly Outworn In Places, But A Cathedral Temple In Which Service Is Still Done To The Unseen And Its Real Presence Can Be Felt By Those Who Enter With The Right Spirit.

The One Aim Of [my] Yoga Is An Inner Self-development By Which Each One Who Follows It Can In Time Discover The One Self In All And Evolve A Higher Consciousness Than The Mental, A Spiritual And Supramental Consciousness Which Will Transform And Divinize Human Nature.

Many Of Us, Utterly Overcome By Tamas, The Dark And Heavy Demon Of Inertia, Are Saying Nowadays That It Is Impossible, That India Is Decayed, Bloodless And Lifeless, Too Weak Ever To Recover; That Our Race Is Doomed To Extinction. It Is A Foolish And Idle Saying. No Man Or Nation Need Be Weak Unless He Chooses, No Man Or Nation Need Perish Unless He Deliberately Chooses Extinction.

To Hope For A True Change Of Human Life Without A Change Of Human Nature Is An Irrational And Unspiritual Proposition.