Great Throughts Treasury

"The best form in which to worship God is every form."

"Guru, God, and Self are One."

"Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God."

"See God in everyone. it is deception to teach by individual differences and karma."

"Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say."

"Attachment is the strongest block to realization."

"Work is worship."

"I have no powers. I don't know anything."

"The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute."

"Cleanse the mirror of your heart, and you will see God."

"Everything is impermanent, except the love of God"

"A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God."

"Always speak the truth."

"A wife must serve God by serving her husband."

"A woman is a snake; you shouldn't even touch her."

"Ask God or Hanuman. I'm just an ordinary being. I can do nothing."

"Don?t throw anyone out of your heart."

"Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is imperturbable... he can give up anger immediately."

"I am everybody's guru."

"I am the father of the world. The whole world is my child."

"I don't want anything. I exist only to serve others."

"If husband is happy, God is happy"

"If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal."

"If you desire a mango at the moment of death, you?ll be born an insect. If you even desire the next breath, you will take birth again."

"If you do not make it empty, how will you fill it up again?"

"If you have enough faith, you can give up money and possessions."

"If you want to know if you?re making progress on the so-called spiritual path, see if you?re kinder to people; see if you?re a little easier on yourself; see if you obsess about your own self and all this stuff in your life a little bit less; see if you?re happier in the day in a simple way, more content; and see if you?re treating people more like you would like to be treated. That means it?s working."

"If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don?t act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don?t, and the desire for it will go away."

"In India, yoga flows in the blood of people."

"It doesn?t matter if you are married or not, it only matters how much you love God. He chided: This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached."

"It is entirely against the traditions of the ashram that people should get away without getting prasad."

"It is not necessary to meet your guru on the physical plane. The guru is not external."

"It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out in everything."

"Keep God in your heart like you keep money in the bank."

"Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ."

"Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity."

"Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment ? These are all paths to hell."

"Saints did Jap (japa) and Sadhana for 10,000 years... only then they could succeed in Jap, Meditation and Yoga. But people want to be expert within 5-7 months only."

"Often one goes for one thing and finds another."

"Serve as Hanuman served."

"See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away."

"Serve the poor and remember God."

"Maharajji asked an Indian girl four times, "do you like sorrow or joy?" each time the girl answered, " I've never known joy, Maharajji, only sorrow." finally, Maharajji said, " I love sorrow. It brings me closer to God.""

"Marriage is more attachment. You need more devotion and discipline to have union with God when you are married."

"Money should be used to help others."

"The eyes of a saint are always concentrated on the supreme self. The minute he is aware of himself, sainthood is lost."

"Temples are but piles of stones. Attachment holds you back."

"The great sadhus don?t have a human body. They are omnipresent. If a saint changes form, he doesn?t necessarily have to take on a human body. The soul is the small form and the human body is the huge form."

"The guru must know everything about you."

"The heart never grows old."