You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.

So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

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 a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear of falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.

The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced from one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.

Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

Dislodging a green nut from its shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

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.

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.