First learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.
Everyone wants to command and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful Brahmacharya system of yore.
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves; because, to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God.
To the man who has begun to hate himself, the gate to degeneration has already opened; and the same is true of a nation.
Resist all evils mental and physical; and when you have succeeded in resisting, then will calmness come.
Inactivity should be avoided by all means. Activity always means resistance.
Work as if you were a stranger in this land, a sojourner; work incessantly, but do not bind yourselves; bondage is terrible.
Be 'unattached'; let things work; let brain-centres work; work incessantly, but let not a ripple conquer the mind.
You should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do a slave's work.