“Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one’s relationship with the spiritual master.”

A devotee’s life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.

Renunciation means death of false ego.

Where there is no inner freedom, there is no life.

In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.

Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength.

Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, “Guru Kripa”, it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.

We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.

Application of humility is service.

Death is not big thing, what is important is God’s service.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.

Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.

What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.

Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process – and then letting go.

The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.