- One can fix mind on God by chanting his names and glories without ceasing and keeping the company of the holy.
- The mind, a solitary corner and the forest are the places to meditate.
- A tortoise moves around in water, but do you know where its mind dwells? On the bank of the river, on dry land where its eggs are laid. Attend to all your worldly work, but take care that your mind rests in God.
- God can be seen by going into solitude from time to time, chanting His name and glories, practicing discrimination – these are what you have to do.
- Do your work with one hand and hold onto God with the other. When you finish your work, you will hold God with both hands.
- In the beginning there is a lot of activity, but the more you advance on the path towards God, the less your activities will be. At the end, all work drops away and samadhi follows.
- When you develop ecstatic love for God, work falls off automatically. Let those act whom the Lord makes act.
- These days the decoction of ten medicinal roots does not help cure a fever. By the time such a decoction begins to show effect, the patient runs the risk of being carried off. ‘Fever mixture’ is the medicine for the present age. If you ask them to perform rituals, give them fish minus the head and tail.
- How long, then, does one have to perform sandhya and such ritualistic worship? As long as tears do not flow and the hair does not stand on end at the sound of God’s name.
- The blossom falls off as soon as the fruit appears. Karma is the blossom, and love for God is the fruit.
- You have to work for it. Only then can God be seen. One day I had a vision of the Haldarpukur. I saw that a person of low caste was taking water from it after removing the scum from its surface. Each time he took water in his palm, he examined it. It was as if he was telling me that you can’t see the water unless you remove the scum.
- If you want butter, you have to make curd from milk and then keep it in a quiet place. When the milk is curdled, you have to make the effort to churn it and take out the butter.
- That’s why work for God is necessary. It does no good to say, ‘God is,’ and just sit there. Somehow you have to approach Him. Call upon Him secretly, pray to Him, Please grant me Thy vision.
- Somebody wants to meet the king. The king is beyond the seven gates. Even before passing through the first gate, he asks, ‘Where is the king?’ The way is to pass through all the gates one by one.
- You have to serve both parties. King Janaka was loyal to both matter and spirit and drank his milk from a full cup.