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.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

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.

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

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

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the...

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is...

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

You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual...

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

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

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

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after...

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

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 you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

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

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God...

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to...

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

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

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

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked...

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

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.

God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount Sumeru, unattached, and beyond pain and pleasure. There is much confusion in this...

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

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

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or...