Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.