a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined and the soul gradually liberated.

“Keen intelligence is two-edged,” Master once remarked in reference to Kumar’s brilliant mind. “It may be used constructively or destructively, like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate oneself. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.”

“May we hear, sir, how you changed from a tamer of wild tigers to a tamer of wild passions?”

The thoughts of most persons are restless and capricious; a manifest need exists for yoga: the science of mind control.

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all of man’s slavery.

“He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom,”

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady,” he remarked on suitable occasion. “Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon’s knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”

“By calmness,” my guru said, “try to feel the thoughts behind the confusion of men’s verbiage.”

The Hindu scriptures teach that an imperative duty of man is to keep his body in good condition; otherwise his mind is unable to remain fixed in devotional concentration.