Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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.
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize 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.
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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.
When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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.