If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i.e., in one's own heart.)

Great men have the nature of a child.

If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.

If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

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.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.

A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

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 Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

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.

Do yourself what you wish others to do.

The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner consciousness.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.