“Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.”

A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.

He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.

Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.

God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’

No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.