By counting one sign ahead of the position as given in the almanac, the correct position is secured. In the case of the moon, as well as in the sun's zodiac, we deal with the signs, and not with the constellations.

It is unnecessary to argue further that while the facts of nature determine the main developments of speech, yet every language and group of languages differs from every other as the characters of individuals and of nations.

My whole body is trembling, my hair is standing on end, my bow Gāṇḍīva is slipping from my hand, and my skin is burning.

They are great lovers of music and of dancing. Very commonly, as soon as music is heard, the life forces start within them, and it is hard for them to keep still.

Vanity of vanities, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

At a time when the sun was still hot and high and if a person went to a place, he would reach there when the sun was still high, some were about four miles or so from the town.

These are the ten spheres of existence out of nothing. From the spirit of the immanent Absolute emanated air, from the air, water, from the water, fire or ether, from the ether, the height and the depth, the East and West, the North and South.

They worked until mid-day and they said, "We are not in need of your reward." So the man employed another batch and said to them, "Complete the rest of the day and yours will be the wages I had fixed (for the first batch)." They worked up until the afternoon.

For one who has conquered the mind, Enlightenment is already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor are all the same.

Somewhere it came to the mind that the beauty of snowpeaks and moonlight, and standing water, was different from all other loveliness of colour and profusion and many-channelled scene.

Of frowning the brows, of raising the brows, of lowering the brows, of closing the eyes, of opening the eyes, of raising the nostrils, of opening the lips, with the teeth shut, of pouting with the lips, of smiling, of astonishment.

Satisfaction is an infinite money. Toleration and patience are twins produced by the high determination. Toleration is a clan. Piety is the head of all manners.

Under proper conditions, persons of this nature develop a strong will-power, are self-reliant; but are apt to be rather quiet and uncommunicative, though persistent in the direction of their innate nature.

I have found that in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

A falcon, unable to endure with patience the disappearance of a duck, which, flying before him had plunged under water, wished to follow it under water, and having soaked his feathers had to remain in the water while the duck rising to the air mocked at the falcon as he drowned.

From relation to failure is how I summarized the path I covered, and hope to have made you cover as well.

An enthusiasm born of a radical communal experience the previous year, which left me so stripped bare that I was ready for my destiny to strike. The year was 1970, the collective atmosphere supercharged with significance and power. It was appropriate to encounter in another.

If the intellect must yield to subtler awareness, each one can find their own bearings best if the degree angel speaks in her true inward tongue and is not excessively interpreted within limited cultural models.

A passion for bearing ripe fruits. Feeling transported by an ongoing realization that you are in your own element, doing what you need to do and subtly fired by an inner purpose that clarifies everything. The glow of your central intent warms you through.

Self-confounding. Fascinated, you are engrossed by the fabulous disattunement you seem to be stuck with. Suspended, enchanted, held fast by ancient errors, rendered safe or innocuous. Being held down by an old curse and not being able to find any way out of it.