Tradition, authority and the sanction of society and religion, which is the structure of authority, have finished; it cannot help you. Therefore you have to do everything yourself: you have to be your guru, your disciple, you have to learn, you have to observe. You are responsible for yourself as a human being. When you realise you are completely responsible for yourself, you become very earnest, very efficient, because nobody is going to help you.
From School Talk (Students) 1, Rajghat, 1 January 1967