So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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.

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

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God.

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

Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.

He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

God has created the world in play, as it were.