Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.