Birth: February 18, 1836 Death: August 16, 1886
The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take th….
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 po….
He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one..
Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions..
Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other..
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself..
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discr….
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone..
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by woode….
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in ….
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace..
As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body..
What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled….
If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour ….
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….
God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous..
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal..
Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever….
At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it..
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by ….
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So whe….