On Thoughts and Aphorisms

Aphorism - 63, 64, 65 63—God is great, says the Mahomedan. Yes, He is so great that He can afford to be weak, whenever that too is necessary. 64—God often fails in His workings; it is the sign of His illimitable...

Aphorism - 60 60—There is no mortality. It is only the Immortal who can die; the mortal could neither be born nor perish. Does a being carry his mental, vital and physical experiences from one life to another?...

Aphorism - 59 59—One of the greatest comforts of religion is that you can get hold of God sometimes and give him a satisfactory beating. People mock at the folly of savages who beat Page 94 their gods when their...

Aphorism - 58 58—The animal, before he is corrupted, has not yet eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; the god has abandoned it for the tree of eternal life; man stands between the upper heaven and the...

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...

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...

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...

         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...

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...