
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.

True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.

Good is that which elevates the mind and evil is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities; they have nothing to do with your relationship with the Supreme.

Why impress false religion on the world? It will be of no service to it. Why run about for the sake of wealth? You cannot escape from death… Think, O think, you thoughtless fool, you shall have in the end to depart alone.

You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

At the time of God-realisation, nothing new is realised; on the contrary, the yogi feels that this state of God-consciousness which he is experiencing was already known to him.

Cosmic consciousness is consciousness of the Divine in the entire universe, in all things, in all the world, in all nature.
