One, who earns leadership of the people by working ceaselessly for their welfare, finally realises that he has been rewarded with many added advantages.
Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend all members of the association, repulse common enemies and maintain us in everlasting concord…
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realisation.
When divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
