16 Quotes by Swami Ramdas

We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

All spiritual disciplined are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit.

God is an artist par excellence. He has painted the picturesque universe on the screen of His own immutable and glowing Spirit. So He is at once the painter and the painted. In the ultimate analysis, God and His lover, God and His devotee and servant, are He. The unmanifest – which is beyond all duality has become both. This secret few know.

The whole universe is permeated through and through with God,” said Ramdas. “The visible and invisible worlds are all He – as manifest and unmanifest. There is nothing and none but He. All, all is He. Such is the truth. Where then is the idea of ‘I’ and ‘you’–‘mine’ and ‘yours’. All are He and His.

What is Self-realization? It is giving up the pretension that you are not the Self, that you are a mere body. People say to me, ‘You are God Himself.’ I reply, ‘You are also He.’ ‘We are not He’-they rejoin. What else is this, but that they simulate and, for some lila of their own, hide behind a mask their real and divine nature?