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.
You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.
Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.
Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.
The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.