If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house rent for the use of the house.

You should love everyone; no one is a stranger; God dwells in all beings; without Him nothing can exist.

The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.

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 ordinary man says in his ignorance, “My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best.” But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee’s feet.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

As for myself, I look upon all women as my Mother. This is a very pure attitude of mind. There is no risk or danger in it. To look upon a woman as one’s sister is also not bad. But the other attitudes are very difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible to keep to the purity of the ideal.