Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, the six systems of philosophy — have been defiled, like food that has been touched by the tongue, for they have been read or uttered by the tongue. Only one thing has not been defiled in this way, and that is Brahman. No one has ever been able to say what Brahman is.

The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.