It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.
Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.
As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.
All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
As for myself, I look upon all women as my Mother. This is a very pure attitude of mind. There is no risk or danger in it. To look upon a woman as one’s sister is also not bad. But the other attitudes are very difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible to keep to the purity of the ideal.
One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
Dislodging a green nut from it’s shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.