Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

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

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

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

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

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.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

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

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

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.