Quotes About Spirituality

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you

The enquiry 'Who am I?' is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.

The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.

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.

Although the modes of meditation may appear to be different from one another, in the end all of them become one. There is no need to doubt this. One may adopt that path which suits the maturity of one's mind.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self.

I do not consider anyone to be my disciple. I have never sought upadesh from anyone nor do I give ceremonial upadesh. If the people call themselves my disciples I do not approve or disapprove.

The body is the temple; the jiva is God (Siva). If one worships him with the 'I am He' thought, one will gain release.

you must achieve liberation during your life time. Even if you fail to do it during your lifetime, you must think of god at least at the time of death, since one becomes what he thinks of at the time of death. But unless all your life you have been thinking of God, unless you have accustomed yourself to dhyana of 'God always during life, it would not at all be possible for you think of God at the time of death.

He who has renounced (the 'I-thought') thus, remains the same whether he is alone or in the midst of the extensive samsara

It is beyond words or thoughts.

It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

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.

What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.

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.

So long as they make efforts they will not be sages (jnanis).

there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.

The Self is the only Reality. (p. 38)

Lady with fair countenance! Understand that one who is not able to realise the Truth in his Heart by this knowledge of spiritual wisdom known as Kala Jnana, can never attain it even by studying countless crores ofsastras (scriptures) spread out like the sky.