| How can a petty, narrow, nationalistic mind, a mind that is begotten through fear, compulsion, imitation, authority – how can that shallow mind find, worship or try to find out what the supreme mind is? It is an escape; it is pure, unadulterated romanticism. The fact is you have to understand yourself first. How can a thought which is the result of fear inquire? How can thought which is the result of contradiction, sorrow, pain, ambition, envy, search out the unsearchable? Obviously, it cannot, but that is what we are trying to do all the time. From Public Talk 5, New Delhi, 4 February 1962 Read more | 