- ‘Lust and greed’ bind a man. One loses one’s freedom.
- Attached to ‘lust and greed,’ the mind remains soiled, it remains covered with dirt. If a needle is covered with mud, a magnet can’t attract it. But when the mud and dirt are washed off, the magnet attracts. You can wash the dirt of the mind with the tears from your eyes. If you weep with tears of repentance, crying, ‘O Lord, I shall never do such a thing again!’ then this dirt is washed away and the magnet of God can attract the needle of the mind. You then go into samadhi and have the vision of God.
- It is ‘lust and greed’ that take a man away from God. They are obstacles to God-realization.
- Just as you roam about madly for ‘lust and gold,’ be a little mad for Him. Let people say that so-and-so person has gone mad for God. Give up everything for some days and only call upon Him secretly.
- When you have renounced ‘lust and greed’ in the mind, it goes to God and becomes absorbed in Him. When does the lower needle not point to the upper needle of the goldsmith’s scale? The moment there is a load of ‘lust and greed’ in one of its pans.
- As soon as one is freed from the attachment to ‘lust and greed,’ the mind and intellect become pure. Then pure mind and pure intellect are one. He is known by the pure mind.
- The pundits talk grandly, but where is their attention? On ‘lust and greed,’ on sensual pleasures and money.
- Vultures soar high, but their eyes remain fixed on the charnel pits. Their looks are only on charnel pits, dead animals, and corpses.