A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice – to make the average good.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.