In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
Be comfortable within your purse. Extravagance will buy you discomfort.
Good and positive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched.
Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.
Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.
Lifelong shadow lifted from my heart; the vague search, hither and yon, was over. I had found eternal shelter in a true guru.
The living reality of your presence, Master, is joy beyond any symbol.
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.
The Motherhood of God, that you have worshiped in forms both human and divine, could never fail to answer your forsaken cry.
The One who gave us air and milk from our first breath knows how to provide day by day for His devotees.
You go often into the silence, but have you developed anubhava (actual perception of God)? Do not mistake the technique for the Goal.
Sir, is it necessary to prove God? Isn’t He performing miracles in everything, everywhere?
The one who practices a scalpel self-dissection will know an expansion of universal pity. Release is given him from the deafening demands of his ego. The love of God flowers on such soil.
God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.
Even he with the worst of karma who ceaselessly meditates on Me quickly loses the effects of his past bad actions. Becoming a high-souled being, he soon attains perennial peace. Arjuna, know this for certain: the devotee who puts his trust in Me never perishes!
Why come to view my bones and flesh, when I am ever within range of your kutastha (spiritual sight)?
Why be elated by material profit? The one who pursues a goal of even-mindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee.
Keen intelligence is two-edged. It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one’s self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.
It is I who have watched over thee, life after life, in the tenderness of many mothers! See in My gaze the two black eyes, the lost beautiful eyes, thou seekest! (Divine Mother to Paramhansa Yoganansa)
Let the divine words be heard again, in this twentieth century, twice dyed in blood ere half over: No nation that can produce ten men, great in the eyes of the Unbribable Judge, shall know extinction. Heeding such persuasions, India has proved herself not witless against the thousand cunnings of time. Self-realized masters in every century have hallowed her soil; modern Christlike sages, like Lahiri Mahasaya and his disciple Sri Yukteswar, rise up to proclaim that the science of yoga is more vital than any material advances to man’s happiness and to a nation’s longevity.
Kriya Yoga is an instrument through which human evolution can be quickened.
Wisdom is not assimilated with the eyes, but with the atoms. When your conviction of a truth is not merely in your brain but in your being, you may diffidently vouch for its meaning.
The ignorant man sees only the insurmountable wall of death, hiding, seemingly forever, his cherished friends. But the man of unattachment, he who loves others as expressions of the Lord, understands that at death the dear ones have only returned for a breathing-space of joy in Him.
So long as man remains subject to the dualistic delusions of nature, the Janus-faced Maya is his goddess; he cannot know the one true God.
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