# Fifty.
Catastrophe arrives precisely when human power exceeds the bounds of human understanding. It has been so since the remotest antiquity. When men first grew powerful, they did not know what to do with this surplus strength. From this arose a groundless arrogance about their own might, and so instead of extending a helping hand to weaker nations, they began to rule over them, and sometimes, under the guise of aid, bent them to their will, subjecting them to cunning violence. Intoxicated by this power, they strayed from the path of truth and began to deny it altogether. They built walls around themselves and hid behind masks of their own making, as they pleased. When does a man discard his face for a mask? For many reasons. One is this: when a man becomes enslaved to some false notion about himself, wanting to appear as what he is not. Then he drifts ever further from his own heart and spins endlessly in the vortex of deception.
The search for truth cannot be merely an intellectual undertaking—it must be deeply intuitive. Intuition holds far greater worth than intellect. He who wanders only in the realm of imagination never finds truth. A seeker of truth must be curious and ardent both, and must know how to venture forth with understanding and courage. The path of truth is never simple or straight. At every step lie obstacles; defeat may overtake us; fear of death itself may try to turn us back. To walk the path of truth, our minds must be such that even if death comes, we shall not retreat. This death is chiefly the manifold perils and doubts born of society and from within ourselves, which in that moment overwhelm us, trying to blind us utterly. To walk the path of light, we must search for truth all our lives. For our natural sight is dim; it cannot perceive all things. No matter how much we search, no matter how enlightened we become, much will remain unseen even as we approach life’s end. There is no need to be unduly anxious about this while we live, or while we strive to know and understand truth. In this world, a man can come to know only as much truth before death as the sincerity and capacity within him allow. Not all possess equal capacity—we must accept this. Yet through constant practice, we can multiply our capacity many times over!
Truth cannot be seized by force. Only through unceasing effort does truth itself come and reveal itself before us. But before it can manifest, we must first, one by one, strip away all the false masks beneath which we have hidden ourselves around us, all the coverings we have drawn around the boundaries of our thought. When truth appears before us, it means truth establishes itself firmly in the depths of our heart. We must come to know it through prayer. In truth, everything that is possible for us to know, or to reconcile within ourselves, already dwells within us. We must awaken this dormant, sleeping essence. And to awaken this slumbering self, we must ceaselessly free ourselves from all conditioning and continue our endeavor.
Truth has many forms and can be defined across multiple dimensions. Each person’s life holds its own truth. To dismiss or call baseless the truth that has sustained someone—without causing harm to even an atom of another life in this world—is merely foolishness. The mindset that one’s own truth is the only supreme truth and all else is trivial is nothing but another name for stupidity. The more such foolishness spreads across the world, the more the world tilts toward conflict. We must remember this: the arrogant belief that *I alone am right and the rest are wrong*—this is the first rung of ignorance and delusion.
A truly enlightened person is at once a teacher and a student. An enlightened teacher learns from everyone and continues to learn until the final breath of their life. The world is run by two fundamentally different minds—East and West. The world itself is humanity. Just as our right and left hemispheres function, the thinking, consciousness, and methods of work in this world’s two hemispheres are completely different. Like our right hemisphere, people in the Western hemisphere accept or reject everything through scientific, aggressive, and logical reasoning. Like our left hemisphere, people in the Eastern hemisphere are tender, gentle, endowed with deep contemplative power, mysterious. The right hemisphere seeks to conquer nature through science and pursues this through scientific means, but our left hemisphere surrenders itself to nature and, through ceaseless effort, seeks to forge a connection between the soul and the natural world. This is why an eternal tension persists between our right and left hemispheres. Our right hemisphere seeks answers to everything through science alone, but our left hemisphere, employing intelligence, emotion, and wisdom, arrives at solutions through continuous self-questioning. Yet scientific progress without wisdom has always been destructive—like placing a sword in a child’s hands.
**Fifty-One.**
It is said that once every twenty-five centuries, the world passes through a terrible chaos. People begin to feel their lives meaningless; the purpose of existence becomes entirely invisible to them. Lost without direction, people run frantically here and there, searching blindly. A profound darkness closes in from all sides. Everything in life seems mechanical, futile, and purposeless. It is precisely at this moment that people must surrender to truth. They must seek the actual truth of life, seek the light. When artificiality surrounds humanity on all sides, that is the true time to embark on the path of light. That is when people are fully prepared to know truth. This is when a teacher is needed—one who leads humanity toward light in this moment of chaos. What greater joy could there be than giving birth to a new person, a new humanity? The true teacher’s task is to kindle an ever-growing thirst in the student’s mind and prepare them to stand face to face with truth. Once someone becomes fully enlightened, they no longer need a teacher. All their questions find their end. When new questions arise, they themselves know where to seek the answers, or with patience, they understand which path to take to find them.
Creating a person of entirely new consciousness is not easy work. When a teacher, in undertaking this task, knows or can foresee the fruit it will bear, they accept any hardship or indifference. This present suffering is the architect of days to come—this thought keeps dancing in their mind.
# On Creation, Truth, and the Transformation of Self
Just as a mother carries a child within her for ten months and ten days, enduring all manner of suffering, because she knows that when those months have passed and she beholds her child’s face—the face of a new creation—all her pain will transform into joy. She knows, too, that this process may bring the shadow of death to her doorstep, that she herself may perish, yet she consents to accept all that comes. There is an inexpressible delight in this process. Similarly, when a person becomes creative, their mind begins to dance with joy. This is essential, for suffering is the primary source of creation, and joy is the fundamental condition for creation’s growth. One who has no sorrow within can never create. Yet sorrow alone is not enough; one must learn to extract wisdom from sorrow’s burning. In this, there is no greater treasure than suffering itself. If the creation that springs from suffering does not bring joy to the creator, then all development of that creation will inevitably come to a halt. In other words, both the person who has no sorrow and the person who cannot harness their sorrow are ordinary people. In truth, he who has no sorrow is the most sorrowful of all.
The very manifestation of truth uses human thought and will to continually steer the mind toward fresh creation. Then man works the soil of his inner landscape, making it fertile through constant labor, and includes himself in the act of creation. There is boundless suffering and patience in this, yet the joy and happiness that come after such boundless suffering and patience run far, far deeper than all the suffering that has been endured. That joy admits of no description. If we could harmonize both the right and left hemispheres of our brain and move forward together, we would behold an entirely new future, one we have never seen before. If the individual transforms himself, his family will transform, and his society will transform, and in time the whole world will transform. The first step in such transformation is to transform oneself. Should humanity choose, it can remake this world into paradise, but for that we need proper preparation, purification, and fulfillment. Preparation means being able to receive all things with an open heart. If one cannot shed the chains of all past beliefs and rigid conditioning, then it is impossible to prepare oneself for anything. The purpose of life is not mere curiosity, but to cultivate within oneself, through gradual knowing, an ever-deepening thirst to know more.
If we pursue truth merely through intellect, or search for it as a spy hunting truth hidden beneath falsehood’s disguise, we may not find true truth at all. If we wish to find it, we must first participate in the vast fabric of what is happening and what is not happening, and we must covenant with ourselves thus: from this day forward, I have freed myself from the chains of all propriety and impropriety. Not right or wrong, but what happens and what does not happen—within these two alone shall I seek truth. We must remember: in this world there is no such thing as right or wrong; what exists is simply—what occurs, what does not occur. That is all! There are two kinds of truth. One resides in the mind, and the other resides beyond the mind. We must learn to live by the truth that exists beyond our mind, by that which governs the world. Only through preparation for such learning does the intensity of knowing within us grow.
In this matter, our teacher works to cultivate that thirst within us.
He so intensifies this yearning to know within us that no matter how narrow our circle of knowledge remains, it keeps expanding nonetheless. A fire of longing to know burns constantly within us. This hunger lies dormant in all of us. Only a true teacher can awaken this sleeping flame. When we prepare ourselves with an unstoppable desire to know, only then does such a teacher appear in our lives. That teacher pours all his strength into us, awakening the dormant power that sleeps within. The simplest way to grow in life is to place someone in the seat of such a guru or teacher. To hold within oneself his counsel, his guidance, his teachings and his way, and to shape one’s life accordingly. More important than understanding what he said is grasping what he left unsaid, yet meant us to understand.
Fifty-two.
Only when we become increasingly hungry, restless, and eager in our pursuit of knowing—only when dissatisfaction grows within us—do we find ourselves ready to take the greatest risks. No other goal or purpose works within us; nothing moves us but the desire to know. Then day and night we search for truth, seeking only our Creator. Preparation itself means becoming a follower of truth. It helps us perceive how blindly we have lived, how we have merely squandered our time. It shows us that this is not the true way of living. If we do not run after the Supreme Self, our life remains empty, unused and impotent. A seeker of truth must renounce wealth, power, prestige, politics—everything—and pursue only that one ultimate truth. This truth teaches us where we came from, where we are going, and what our singular purpose is. Thus, gradually through preparation, we cross the first threshold of truth.
Then comes purification. When the desire to know truth awakens within us, we must purify ourselves, for to reach the Supreme Truth, we must shed all the unnecessary burdens we have carried with us all these years in a single moment. The burdens we have deemed precious, the poisoned things in which we have long been immersed, the poison we have long drunk—the very methods by which all this has happened must be purified. Everything we have followed for ages in the name of religion, by which we have divided ourselves, is itself poison, itself superstition. Purification means casting off all conditions, superstitions, philosophies, definitions, and imposed ideals that have been thought and instilled in us by others for so long. To utterly cleanse oneself—this is purification. It comes only when no ideology or anything else remains within us; when our heart becomes perfectly emptied into void, when existence alone begins to unveil its own truth within us; when we become utterly still and all the principles, philosophies, and ideologies given to us by society vanish completely from within us. To make room for the new, we must clear away the old.
Yes, only then will our existence speak to us in an easy and simple way. Only then will the Supreme Truth itself whisper its hidden mysteries into our ears, when we fully embrace emptiness, for emptiness is primordial purity.
# On the Path of Truth
The purity that marks the path of truth works like a cleanser upon the soul. In truth, reality is not so very far from us. To reach it, we need only shatter the enclosure that surrounds us. If we surround ourselves with walls upon walls, if we don each of multiple personas, if we deceive both others and ourselves by hiding behind masks that conceal what we truly are, then we shall never discover our authentic nature. Our walls will not permit anything new to reach us. We must, one by one, cast off every mask we wear. We must be honest about how pure or how tainted we are within, must learn to stand before the mirror of our own minds with truthfulness. Purity means nothing less than abandoning or sweeping away all manner of hypocrisy, falsehood, artifice, and false notions that we harbor within ourselves. This purity is the second level upon the path of truth.
And then comes the third level on the path of truth—completion. When we abandon the comfortable way of being false and fraudulent, when we have swept away all the burdens and all the filth from within ourselves, then completeness will naturally align itself with us according to its own law. The dirt that has accumulated in our mirror for so long—once we have wiped it clean—completeness will appear before us of its own accord. But to walk the path of purification toward truth requires an intense longing, for a feeble yearning cannot generate the tremendous mental force necessary to walk the path of truth. To be purified from within is like drawing pus from a wound. If we cannot extract the infection in time, this pus will slowly consume us from the inside. If we can bear the temporary suffering required to draw it out, we will recover swiftly. To suppress it, to hold it within, means only to allow it to grow and spread. At some point it will infect the entire body. Once we become ready to walk the path of purification—ready to the point that we would die for it if necessary—then truth begins, gradually, to make its home in the heart.
Death means the death of the old self. For only through the death of the old self can the new self be born. We must allow the self that we have imagined ourselves to be all these years to die of its own accord. The ego we have clung to so long must now be released. We must surrender ourselves to our newly created accusations of ourselves, and must cast away as refuse all that once seemed precious to us. It is like losing one’s kingdom and becoming a beggar. The first step to becoming a king is to become a beggar. As long as our longing is not intense, we shall not be ready to do this. In this effort, we need not strive to be perfect. If we make space for it through our own purification, it will perfect itself, will become complete, of its own accord.
Fifty-three.
Truth is one, yet across the ages, different wise people have described it in different ways. A philosophical mind can never be bound by blind faith or arrogance. The very prerequisite of philosophy is to receive all things with an open mind. A philosopher does not accept everything beforehand without asking questions, without inquiry or investigation. He is inclined to doubt; yet from whatever source truth comes, he receives it with an open heart.
# On Accepting the Unknown and Seeking Existence
One cannot search for existence by accepting the unknown blindly. The notion that only we, by group judgment, are the Creator’s chosen people or representatives, breeds fanaticism. To believe in something without sight is a kind of willing deception—as when we accept something without knowledge or experience of the matter itself. To claim that only we know the truth, or that only what we say is truth, both are utterly destructive. When we declare that only “our Creator” is eternal truth, that our path alone is best and right, that all others are frauds merely peddling lies, we distance ourselves far from truth itself. For if we say one Creator is truth, what becomes of the Creator worshipped by followers of other faiths? We have as much logic for remaining on our own path as they have for not abandoning theirs. To understand this is what mental and spiritual maturity means.
Whenever we regard ourselves and our path as supreme, we actually position ourselves as victims. For then we must either become proselytizers, or be transformed by another’s false beliefs and ways. If we accept such willing self-deception, all seems well. If we refuse to be willingly led by others, we are forced to accept their ideas. Otherwise, when we resist, we are persecuted so that we might cast off our so-called “false Creator” as they claim—such circumstances are sufficient to destroy an entire society, an entire nation. We can reach truth by any road. There are many paths up a mountain, but whether we take the northern, southern, eastern, or western route, whether we choose the difficult or the easy path, all lead to the summit. Here, arrival is the essence; the route taken is not. Any path that reaches the mountain’s peak cannot be wrong in any way. Perhaps it does not match my road, but that does not make it wrong at all.
Perhaps one goes to a mosque to pray, another to a temple. Or perhaps to a church, a pagoda, or any other place of worship—but all prayers reach that same Creator. If one wishes, one may call upon one’s Creator from any place of worship. The Creator hears from everywhere. One need only know how to honor others’ devotion, others’ prayers. All prayers must be received with reverence. Without this, one cannot pray rightly. The way we live according to what we believe, within that faith—that is the path of truth. Belief that serves no purpose in our daily life is worthless. In that sense, the path of living, the path of truth, is not one but many. If something seems true to us, and it harms no one in the world, creates no obstacle to anyone’s way of living, then living in that truth is what we call faith. Our belief unfolds through the way we live our lives. This does not mean we should forcibly impose belief upon ourselves. That is a kind of hypocrisy, a kind of self-deception.
**Fifty-Four.**
Belief that does not spring from the heart is meaningless. One must trust truth only after knowing it truly. Suppose we tell someone of meditation’s benefits and ask them to meditate, yet they criticize it without making any genuine effort at meditation themselves—this is not their belief, but rather a false notion, stubbornness, or ignorance.
To accept or reject any idea without experience is to indulge falsehood. If I sit down to meditate merely by straightening my spine, without observing the rules of meditation, it will give me nothing. There is indeed a difference between truly meditating and performing meditation. Meditation means conversing with one’s own heart, living with one’s face—not one’s mask—before one’s eyes. The heart is not something to be hawked in the marketplace, and meditation is fundamentally the work of the heart. Meditation is dialoguing with the person within oneself, purifying oneself through that conversation.
To seek truth, one must cut oneself off completely from others and pursue that search in solitude. For if one announces one’s search for truth to all and sundry, misunderstanding is bound to arise. And wherever misunderstanding takes root, it becomes an obstacle on the path of truth-seeking, it scatters one’s focus. This wastefully drains our energy. Truth is fit for discussion only with those who have some grasp of it, whose understanding is developed, or whose mental constitution is such that they can comprehend it. Those for whom only their own truth exists and everything else is falsehood—to discuss truth with them is to imperil oneself. One must sow the seed of truth within oneself. If we scatter the seeds of truth all around us without first sowing them within ourselves, they will never grow. Only by gradually spreading them within ourselves will they one day become a tree. We keep trying to sow the seeds of truth in the hearts of others before planting them in our own, and as a result, truth remains forever unseen.
Whatever power of truth awakens within us, we must tend it carefully in our hearts, so that it may grow into a tree and flourish within us. Then comes a day when we can no longer contain it within ourselves. That day alone is the fit time to scatter it among all; not before. One must first embody truth completely in oneself, only then comes the question of distributing it to others. Just as a mother carries her child in her womb for ten months and ten days, so must one carry truth in one’s heart. When the child in the mother’s womb becomes a complete human infant, that is the right time for it to be born; it is the same with truth. Before that appointed time, the child is not found in sound condition; likewise, truth in its own true form cannot be found before its appointed time arrives. The history of the world shows that truth, placed in immature hands, has always been propagated in distorted form.
Whenever, in our search for truth, we glimpse some glimmer of it, our mind at once urges us to announce it all around, telling us to make it known to others. But if we expose it publicly in that moment, we shall never attain the complete truth, nor shall others be able to see it. We shall lose it in an instant. We must not lay bare truth before we have received it in its fullness; to do so is to let truth depart and make way for falsehood. And again, on the path of truth-seeking, there come countless moments when, after long nights and days of waiting, truth still does not reveal itself to us, and we think to ourselves: let me abandon this search for truth.
Doubt about our inner existence may arise when we give up and think of retreating to that ordinary person we once were. This is undoubtedly a difficult moment. In that moment, we must hold fast with patience, remembering those great souls who themselves walked the path of truth and lit the way for others.
Fifty-Five.
Wealth, power, influence, fame—none of these matter if truth does not bloom within them. Only truth is eternal. The path of truth, the path of existence, is the Creator’s path, the path of creation. Yet whoever walks this path walks in utter solitude. Only those who have walked it for countless centuries are the true companions of those who travel it now. Whenever the thought of giving up arises, remembering the words of all the wise and great souls carries us forward. The history of this world tells us that when we consider all great human beings together, there is one quality they all share: they walk the path of light with minds unburdened by prejudice. We who walk this path, or live with the intention of walking it, essentially follow those luminous souls. On this path, we have no fear, no despair; we need only patience to keep moving without stopping. When someone reaches truth, they hold the Creator within themselves. To establish a friendly connection with one’s own heart—this is what it means to commune with the Creator, to speak with Him. When we hold the philosophy of great beings in our hearts, we must remain with them, move forward with them. For their path is our path; we are like them. Whatever tribe we are born into by circumstance, to reach our true destination we must belong to their tribe and walk their way. The lineage, dwelling, and nature of all greatness are one and the same.
Birthplace never carries anyone’s true identity. All who have learned to walk the path of light are pilgrims of that light, beyond all boundaries and borders. There are many species of flowers across the world, but not all their fragrance or beauty draws us—only what we love do we embrace, draw close, and allow to touch our hearts. Whatever stirs our heart is our true home. That is our source of strength. This strength is what carries us toward our truth. The very foundation of every religion is walking that path of truth. Not ritual, but the philosophy of religion must guide us. The less power one possesses, the more blindly one clings to religious ritual. To respect all religions, all scriptures, and all the faithful means to honor humanity. Whoever does not honor humanity can never reach the threshold of truth. When such strength and steadfastness are created within us, only then can we be purified on the path of truth. This purification of the soul reminds us of our duty. For purification, we must create the right environment around ourselves. Only then can we do all that is necessary for purification.
On the path of purification, we must first become a good child, a good companion, a good brother or sister, and a good mother or father.
# On Being a Good Child
To be a good child does not mean showing blind obedience and surrendering one’s own will to accept every opinion of one’s parents, even against one’s wishes. Rather, it means that we listen deeply to everything our parents wish to say, and then we embrace what we find right, and if we cannot agree with something, we explain our difficulty to them gently and clearly. I may not agree with my parents, but this does not mean I am bound to comply with their words against my will. For such constant coercion would render me unbalanced, and then I would deceive both myself and those around me. It turns a person into a broken counterfeit. A good child is one who is conscious, wise, and reverent—one who understands deeply what their parents say, for they already possess the experience of life. A good child always listens, understands, and learns from what is heard. They do not rush into decisions.
There must be good communication between parent and child, for the parent is the mirror of the past and the child is the mirror of the future. This works much like a bridge between them. It is not only the child who must be good; for nothing one-sided ever endures. Both parent and child must be good to each other. Parents serve as the symbol of all parents who came before them. Therefore, it is the child’s duty to show them respect. Yet some children become disobedient to their fathers precisely because their fathers have shown them the right path. Many do not wish to walk that path. It requires wisdom and patience to walk it—qualities not everyone possesses. The right path is not an easy one. Some children refrain from doing certain things not because the deed is good, but because their father has advised them to do it.—Both these paths are wrong, for both spring from ego. The work of a good child is to listen intently to the counsel their father gives, to understand it deeply, to examine it, to receive all of it with an open heart, and then, after careful consideration, to follow the path that seems right to them and discard the rest—and likewise to reject what is distasteful to them. This is not disobedience; it is wisdom itself.
**Fifty-six**
To be a good colleague or good friend is the first condition of surviving in society. When relationships among colleagues are marked by friendship, a healthy environment is created that allows us to work in comfort and peace. If we harm another, we essentially invite worry upon ourselves. This can create many obstacles on the path of truth. Then we may fall into all manner of needless trouble. In the same way, we must maintain gentle, tender, and loving conduct with our companion or partner. Where love is absent, it is not unreasonable that complaints arise from various deprivations, and from complaints springs hatred. We must remember this: hatred is a poison that takes a person far from love. Hatred can destroy all possibility of love. The act of hating wastes our time and strength at every moment.
Love stands above all things. Whoever loses the glory of love cannot even understand the feeling of prayer. Love is but another form of prayer itself.
He who cannot love another person without reason never receives love in return. Only through love can one find a place in the prayers of others. We must love our companion with compassion, with a shared burden of feeling. Gentleness, virtue, forgiveness, noble emotion—these are slowly vanishing from the world. This will create for us a terrible world indeed, unless we turn away from this path now. Day by day, our relationships grow emotionally hollow and fragile. We are losing the language of tenderness. Our bonds are increasingly shadowed by hatred and anger. We grow indifferent to one another with each passing day. And through all this, one truth becomes clear: the creator of our heart has died. Consequently, our mind has inevitably become bereft of prayer. Love is like a flower, and prayer is its fragrance. If we become loveless, how shall we scatter the perfume of prayer? And where else shall we find the creator but through prayer? The creator dwells within our prayers. To find him, we must awaken our understanding and feeling through prayer. We must speak with the inner self—shedding all convention, all ego, all pride.
When we become fathers, let us become good fathers to our children. Let us not impose rules or philosophies upon them. Let us lay bare our love, our beliefs, our vision before them. Let us speak our truth clearly, but not compel them to accept it. For if we compel them, they may outwardly consent before us, may feign walking that path for our sake, but in truth they will do what they prefer, what they desire—perhaps in secret. And slowly, mingling with all around us, they will choose the path of deception, hiding themselves behind a mask that harms not only them but all of us. So let us not become the greatest enemy to our children. Let us allow them to exercise their own faculty of understanding. Let us help them walk in their own way along the path of their own life. We love our children—we know this—but let us keep that love within ourselves. Let us not compel our children to love us in return on the pretext of our love. Love cannot be extracted by force. If love does not flow spontaneously, it is not love at all. Let us remember that our children may have their own preferences, may develop their own philosophy. Our task alone is this: to lay clearly before them all that we know, all the experience we have gained from walking the path of this life.
A father can only be a guide; he cannot impose his commands upon his child. He can show his child various paths, but he cannot force him to walk the path of his own choosing. For each of us is born with the inherent right to walk our own way, to follow our own ideals. To impose one’s philosophy upon another is to diminish his birthright. Even if he is one’s own child, still he is part of that greater existence which moves and inspires humanity toward becoming human. To violate that is a transgression against something sacred.
Truth can never be followed in fragments. Truth is a complete and indivisible whole. Break it, and it becomes distorted. We cannot use our children as instruments to fulfill our own aims and purposes. For one day, they too must teach their own children. If they themselves have become false, if they have walked an imposed path their entire lives, how can they then guide their children rightly? It is a kind of maiming—crippling your own child from within—and later, they will not even be able to bear their own burden.
The work of a good father is not to make his child entirely dependent upon him, but to clear the way for that child to become self-reliant. When a father becomes truly good, a child naturally becomes good too—because then there is no need for pretense. The child can meet the father with an open heart, can speak of every inner conflict and doubt. There is no fear within. And a good child, in this very way, gradually becomes a good father. This is an ideal family, a climate in which we can grow in health. Such a balanced world, where love, intimacy, tenderness, a sense of duty, and our shared humanity all exist together. Only in such an air can we walk the path of truth, searching for light.
জীবনদর্শনের আলোক বানীগুচ্ছ:
(১)”ভালোবাসা জোর করে আদায় করার কিছু নয়। ভালোবাসা যদি স্বতঃপ্রবৃত্ত হয়ে উৎসরিত না হয়, তবে তা কোনও অবস্থাতেই ভালোবাসা নয়। ”
(২) ” এমন একটি সুষম পরিবেশ, যেখানে ভালোবাসা, অন্তরঙ্গতা, কোমলতা, দায়িত্ববোধ, মানবিকতা সব কিছুই থাকে। কেবল এমন পরিবেশেই সত্যের পথে আলোর খোঁজে হাঁটা সম্ভব।”
(৩) ” একজন সত্যানুসন্ধানীকে অবশ্যই একই সাথে কৌতূহলী ও উৎসুক হতে হয়, একইসাথে বুঝেশুনে কিছু ঝুঁকি নিতে জানতেই হয়। সত্যের পথটা কখনও সরল এবং সোজা নয়। এতে প্রতিপদে বাধা আসতে পারে, পরাজয় গ্রাস করতে পারে, এমনকি মৃত্যুভয় থামিয়ে দিতে চাইতে পারে। সত্যের পথে হাঁটতে গেলে আমাদের মানসিকতা এমন হতে হবে, যেন যদি পথে মৃত্যুও আসে, তবুও আমরা পিছু ফিরে যাব না।”
(৪) ” শুদ্ধির পথে প্রথমে একজন ভালো সন্তান, ভালো সঙ্গী, ভালো একজন ভাই কিংবা বোন এবং ভালো একজন বাবা কিংবা মা হওয়া প্রয়োজন। ”
(৫) ” ভালোবাসা সব কিছুর ঊর্ধ্বে। যে ভালোবাসার মহিমা হারিয়ে ফেলে, সে প্রার্থনার অনুভূতিই বুঝতে পারে না। ভালোবাসা প্রার্থনারই আর-এক রূপ। ”
(৬) “অর্থ, ক্ষমতা, প্রতিপত্তি, খ্যাতি এগুলো কোনওটাই গুরুত্ব বহন করে না, যদি সেখানে সত্যের উন্মেষ না থাকে। কেবল সত্যই চিরন্তন। সত্যের পথ, অস্তিত্বের পথই স্রষ্টার পথ, সৃষ্টির পথ। কিন্তু যে এই পথে হাঁটে, সে সম্পূর্ণই একা। কেবল যারা এ পথে বহু শতাব্দী ধরে হেঁটে এসেছে, তারাই এ পথের পথিকদের প্রকৃত বন্ধু। ”
(৭) “একজন ভালো সন্তানের কাজ তার বাবা তাকে যে উপদেশ দেন, তা নিবিড়ভাবে শোনা, উপলব্ধি করা, যাচাই করা, সব কথাকেই খোলামনে গ্রহণ করা এবং সবকিছু বিচারবিবেচনার পর তার সেগুলো থেকে যে পথ অনুসরণ করা সংগত, তা অনুসরণ করবে, বাকিগুলি বাদ দেবে, সাথে যেটি তার অপছন্দনীয়, সেটিও বর্জন করবে। এটি কোনও অবাধ্যতা নয়, বরং এটি একটি সুস্থবোধ।”
(৮) ” পৃথিবীর সকল ধর্ম, সকল ধর্মগ্রন্থ এবং সকল ধর্মাবলম্বীদের সম্মান করার অর্থ হচ্ছে, মানবতাকে সম্মান করা। যে মানবতাকে সম্মান করে না, সে কখনও সত্যের দ্বারে পৌঁছুতে পারে না। ”
(৯) ” যে বিশ্বাস হৃদয় থেকে আসে না, সে বিশ্বাস অর্থহীন। সত্যকে জেনেই সত্যের উপর আস্থা রাখতে হয়।”
(১০) “জন্মস্থান কখনও কারও পরিচয় বহন করে না। আলোর পথ হাঁটতে শিখেছে যারা, তারা সবাইই আলোর পথিক, সকল সীমানা ও সীমান্ত নির্বিশেষে। “