Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as “I am such an important man” or “I am so and so”. Level the mound of “I” to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.