Birth: February 18, 1836 Death: August 16, 1886
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge..
There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the….
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot..
If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a ….
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better ….
Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by the second ….
So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing….
The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing..
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive.
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the….
Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart..
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad..
The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth..
It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated..
You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity ….
Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe..
It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false..
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward..
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will i….
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism….