Birth: February 18, 1836 Death: August 16, 1886
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious..
Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God..
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of….
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God..
As long as I live, so long do I learn..
Have love for everyone, no one is other than you..
Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud..
As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet..
God has created the world in play, as it were..
God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for t….
Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant..
One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to….
Do yourself what you wish others to do..
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleas….
Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without..
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life..
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who ….
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice..
If you want to go east, don't go west..
The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an….
The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death..