Each one’s power is within him. By allowing a weak mind to get control over us, if we begin running from place to place, when are we going to get strength of mind? Develop it in yourself; such spiritual power is in You. God is not external; God is not outside you; God is inside you. (DM, p. 199)

India is the repository of spiritual power: but now, scarcely any one practises the disciplined life which is the mark of that power. Even now millions go on pilgrimages; millions of copies of sacred texts and spiritual lore are bought and read-thousands of ascetics and gurus are scattered over the land and they receive the homage of the people. But yet there is no peace in the heart, no food to fill the stomach, no clothes to keep the cold off the body. India which is Annapurna swarupa (the granary of the earth), has now to go about with begging bowl for food for her children. This tragedy is caused by ill-discipline, by want of self-control, by what can be called A-swarajya (the absence of Self-Government, Government of the Self). (SSS Vol.30)