No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

If one of the brothers, being able to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire a share of the family property, he may be made separate by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without just cause, gives himself to a man, is called a son self given.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.

If an appointed daughter by accident dies without leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.

Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

Let him avoid the acquisition of wealth and the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts which may cause pain in the future or are offensive to men.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.