Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.

Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing every­thing . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."

I have come to light the lamp of love in your hearts, to see that it shines day by day with added luster.

Real happiness lies within you.

Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

God has no forms, no limbs, no qualities, no preferences, no prejudices.