- The heart of the devotee is His dwelling place. It may be that God is manifest in all things, but He is manifest in a special sense in the heart of a devotee of God.
- Do you know how a devotee feels? ‘Oh Lord, You are the Master, I am Your servant. You are my Mother, I am Your child. And again, You are both my Mother and Father. You are the whole, I am Your part.’ The devotee doesn’t like to say, ‘I am Brahman.’
- God reveals Himself in the form the devotee loves most – gracious loving Lord of the devotee that He is. The Purana says that God assumed the form of Rama for the sake of his heroic devotee, Hanuman.
- The best devotee is the one who, after attaining the knowledge of Brahman, sees that God alone has become the universe and the twenty-four cosmic principles.
- Ganges does not flow only in one direction; it has its ebb and flow tides. The devotee laughs and weeps, sings and dances. The devotee wants to enjoy God. Sometimes he swims; sometimes he dives; other times he rises – just as a piece of ice floats up and down in water.
- As is the devotee, so is the provision made by him. The sattvic devotee provides the rice pudding, the rajasic one offers fifty dishes to the deity, while the tamasic devotee sacrifices a goat or some other animal.
- Men of knowledge see everything as an illusion. Devotees accept all the states. The man of knowledge yields milk in droplets. Some cows are very choosy when they graze, so they yield milk in dribbles. But the cows who don’t discriminate so much and eat everything give streams of milk.
- You may discuss Vedanta a thousand times with a genuine devotee and call the world a dream, but his love for God will not disappear – though he may appear to shed it a little for a while.
- A devotee says, ‘O God, You alone are the doer. You alone do everything. I am only an instrument. I do what You make me do. And all this splendour, this universe, is Yours. This house, this family, is Yours – nothing is mine. I am Your servant. I have only the right to serve You as You command.’