The aim of True Education

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things but enjoy the right things – not merely industrious, but to love industry, to love knowledge, purity and justice and not merely to practise these with a half-heartedness. * * *...

Childlike

The chief character of right childhood is to be Loving. Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back. It loves everything near it, when it is a right kind of a child; would hurt nothing, would give away the best it has always if you need it, does not...

Thoreau on Bhagavat Gita

“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and the cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial and I doubt...

How Indians are treated

“A keeper of monkeys said with regard to their rations of chestnuts that each monkey was to have three in the morning and four at night. But at this the monkeys were very angry, so the keeper said they might have four in the morning and three at night, with...

I Am

Statues of brass and marble will perish, and statues made in imitation of them are not the same statues, nor the same workmanship print and reprint, crave it in wood, engrave it on stone, use any materials; the thought or idea is eternally and identically the same in...