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.
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.
The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.
As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.
Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second one knows how the Absolute Brahman appears as the universe.
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
Fear: Fear is an emotion that is typically hardwired into our beings to ensure our safety.
Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.
Why should you renounce everything? You are all right as you are, following the middle...
It is necessary to pray to Him, with a longing Heart.
There is no hope for a worldly man if he is not sincerely devoted to God.
How dare you talk of helping the world? God alone can do that. First you must be made free from all sense of self; then the Divine Mother will give you a task to do.
Let’s not go into the past.
Now... We are going in a loop.
The depth of the heart, the retired corner, and the forest are the three places for meditation.