Our aspirations, our affections, and our desires are turned towards the wrong things. And only when we turn them towards the right things will things get better.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments.
O Lord! I may have increased desire for the objective world like other people but with this difference that I shall look upon it as Thyself without any idea of duality.
For which of you desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore, one should learn contentment.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn, out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
Whatever we are doing, believing, thinking, desiring, understanding, feeling – if we are not aware of them while aware of ourselves in the present – we are asleep, and all are but embers of a dream.
