Spiritual wisdom has the power to extricate the mind enmeshed in external involvements and make it rejoice in inner expanse and ecstasy of the Self. Of the different kinds of austerity, knowledge austerity is the ultimate. It reforms and refines the intelligence. When such an intelligence guides the mind, the senses begin to act benevolently, bringing peace and welfare to the individual as well as the society.
– Swamiji
