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

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.

Do yourself what you wish others to do.

The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.

Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.

The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

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.

The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .

That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;

You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.

The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each

I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

I’m going to move on and do other things. My life isn’t going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.