“Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?”

He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)

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.

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

You can not understand “Scripture” without seeing through the eyes of the Spiritual Master or Advanced Devotees.

The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.

Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees.

I’d rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don’t understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.