You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the Sun rises. Can you, therefore, say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls, but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.

Iron appears as red hot in the furnace but becomes black soon after it is taken out. In the same way, worldly men are full of religious emotion if they are in a temple or in the society of the pious; but no sooner do they leave these associations the flood of devotion in them subsides.

As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

To explain God merely after reading the scriptures is explaining to a person the city of Banaras after seeing it only on a map.

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

Snakes are venomous reptiles. But the man who has learned the art of snake charming can play even with seven snakes coiled around his snake. Similarly, a man of realization is immune to the dangers of worldly life.

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies.