So, desire to get God and strengthen this desire greatly.
When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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 more you increase your love for God, the more your lust and anger will decrease.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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.
One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realize God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is.
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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.
God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount Sumeru, unattached, and beyond pain and pleasure. There is much confusion in this world of His maya. One can by no means say that ‘this’ will come after ‘that’ or ‘this’ will produce ‘that’.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
The more you increase your love for God, the more your lust and anger will decrease.”
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
Live in the world like an ant. The world contains a mixture of truth and untruth, sugar and sand. Be an ant and take the sugar.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Live in the world like a mud-fish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
So, desire to get God and strengthen this desire greatly.
