The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Think always: I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth? Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.