“Man suffers through lack of faith in God.”

He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.

So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

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

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.

I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner

They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.

All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.

I don’t know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer..

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

We don’t have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal.

It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation – these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.