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 by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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.
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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.
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.
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.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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.
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.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.