On Thoughts and Aphorisms

Aphorism - 55—Be wide in me, O Varuna; be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweetness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; be impetuous and swift, O Maruts; be strong...

51—When I hear of a righteous wrath, I wonder at man's capacity for self-deception. When one deceives oneself, one always does it in good faith. One is always acting for the good of others or for the welfare of...

50—To hate the sinner is the worst sin, for it is hating God; yet he who commits it glories in his superior virtue.

49—To feel and love the God of beauty and good in the ugly and the evil, and still yearn in utter love to heal it of its ugliness and its evil, this is real virtue and morality.How can one help to cure the evil and...

44—Only those thoughts are true the opposite of which is also true in its own time and application; indisputable dogmas are the most dangerous kind of falsehoods. Why are indisputable dogmas the most dangerous...

39—Sometimes one is led to think that only those things really matter which have never happened; for beside them most historic achievements seem almost pale and ineffective. I would like to have an explanation of this...

35—Men are still in love with grief; when they see one who is too high for grief or joy, they curse him and cry, "O thou insensible!" Therefore Christ still hangs on the cross in Jerusalem. 36—Men are in love with...

         31—What I wished or thought to be the right thing does not come about; therefore it is clear that there is no All-Wise one who guides the world but only blind Chance or a brute Causality. For some people...

28—One called Napoleon a tyrant and imperial cut-throat; but I saw God armed striding through Europe. Are all these wars necessary for the evolution of the earth? 29—I have forgotten what vice is and what virtue; I...

24—When I pine at misfortune and call it evil, or am jealous and disappointed, then I know that there is awake in me again the eternal fool. What is this "misfortune" and why does it come? 25—When I see others suffer,...

13—They told me, "These things are hallucinations." I inquired what was a hallucination and found that it meant a subjective or psychical experience which corresponds to no objective or no physical reality. Then I sat...

16—Do not like so many modern disputants smother thought under polysyllables or charm inquiry to sleep by the spell of formulas and cant words. Search always; find out the reason for things which seem to the hasty...