Quotes About God

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

One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.

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

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.

While God sustains the burden of the world, the spurious ego assumes its burden, grimacing like an image on a tower, seeming to support it. If the traveller in a carriage, which can carry any weight, does not lay his luggage down but carries it painfully on his head, whose is the fault?

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.

Finally there comes a stage when a person feels helpless notwithstanding the sadhanas. He is unable to pursue the much-cherished sadhana also. It is then that Gods power is realized. The self reveals itself.

All religions first postulate three principles, the world, the soul and God. To say that one principle alone appears as the three principles or that the three principles are always three principles is possible only as long as the ego exists.1

Surrender, and all will be well. Throw all responsibility onto God. Do not bear the burden yourself. (p. 158)

I Am is the name of God. Of all the definitions of God, none is indeed so well put as the Biblical statement "I Am that I Am" in Exodus (chap. 3). There are other statements, such as Brahmaivaham, Aham Brahmasmi, and Soham. But none is so direct as the name Jehovah = I Am. The Absolute Being is what is – it is the Self. It is God. Knowing the Self, God is known. In fact, God is none other than the Self. (p. 76)

The Master is the same as God and not different from him. (p. 27)

Questioner: Is an intellectual understanding of the Truth necessary? Maharshi: Yes. Otherwise why does not the person realise God or the Self at once, ie. as soon as he is told that God is all or the Self is all? That shows some wavering on his part. He must argue with himself and gradually convince himself of the Truth before his faith becomes firm.

Dristim jnanamayim kritva, pasyet Brahmamayam jagat. By making your standpoint that of wisdom, the world will be seen only as God. (p. 153)

Of all the species that god created, man is the most fragile and certainly uncertain and unreliable, believe me!

Of all the species that god created, man is the most fragile and certainly uncertain!

Of all the species that god created, man remains the most fragile and certainly uncertain, thanks to his histrionic nature!

The wise say the bhakta never knows to what lengths his God will go to please him. The devotee seldom realizes that it is the One he worships who puts some of his desires into his heart.

True love of God means surrender to him, wanting nothing, not even salvation. (FT 216-217)

It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves.

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.

But I am here to help you realize that you are indeed an ongoing, immortal essence who has been living billions of years ever since God, your beloved Father, the totality of thought, contemplated itself into the brilliance of light, which each of you became.

That's when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God's watching you, knowing that He knows you're trying to be strong to please Him.

son, you won't need to talk to my headstone in order to talk to me. I won't be there. I'll be in the air and the Earth. I'll be in the stars that light the African heavens. I'll be watchin' over you and your family. My spirit will always be close enough to touch and protect you all. So, do not grieve for me. My body will die, but my soul will live on. For my soul cannot die. Always remember that my soul is the spark of God in me.