Quotes About Devotion

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.

Love is the essence of God.

If he is a bastard, at least he is our bastard'

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

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. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God's desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.

To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God.

Grace is ever present. The only thing necessary is that you surrender to it. (p. 369)

Be equally indifferent to both and abide in the faith of God. That will be so only when one's faith is strong that God looks after all of us.

The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release, which is the state of unsurpassed bliss. The revered Gurus also have said that release is to be gained only by devotion which is of the nature of reflection on the truth of the Self.

Do your actions without caring for the result. Do not think that you are the doer. Dedicate the work to God. (p. 236)

Prayer is not verbal; it is from the Heart. To merge into the Heart is prayer. That is also Grace. (p. 237)

Divine Grace is essential for realization. It leads one to God-realization. But such Grace is vouchsafed only to him who is a true devotee or a yogin, who has striven hard and ceaselessly on the path towards freedom. (p. 26)

God never forsakes one who has surrendered (mam ekam saranam vraja)

You say how much I love you, "I never let my mind interfere when I'm with you", isn't it enough sign of how much I trust and love you...my dear!

What great punya I must have done, what huge tapasya, what charity to brahmanas – that I am to have the incalculable fortune of seeing Keshava today!