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The following quotes are from Volume 26,SABCL, "On Himself"

I see that you have persisted in giving a biography -- is it really necessary or useful?

The attempt is bound to be a failure, because neither you nor anyone else knows anything at all of my life; it has not been on the surface for men to see.

I had no urge toward spirituality in me, I developed spirituality.

I was incapable of understanding metaphysics, I developed into a philosopher.

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I had no eye for painting -- I developed it by Yoga. I transformed my nature from what it was to what it was not. I did it by a special manner, not by a miracle and I did it to show what could be done and how it could be done. I did not do it out of any personal necessity of my own or by a miracle without any process.

I say that if it is not so, then my Yoga is useless and my life was a mistake -- a mere absurd freak of Nature without meaning or consequence. You all seem to think it a great compliment to me to say that