Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

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.

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

The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

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.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

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

These people are like ... a frog living in a well, who has never seen the outside world. He knows only his well, so he will not believe that there is such a thing as the world. Likewise, people talk so much about the world because they have not known the joy of God.

Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

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

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

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.

By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.