The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand
Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
