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Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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.
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
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.
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.
It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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.
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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.
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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.
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.
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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.