Quotes by Spiritual Masters

"At dawn, I meditate in my heart on the truth of the radiant inner Self. This true Self is Pure Being, Awareness, and Joy, the transcendent goal of the great sages. The eternal witness of the waking, dream and deep sleep states. I am more than my body, mind and emotions, I am that undivided Spirit."

- Śrī Ādi Śhankarachārya

"The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do."

-Sri Ramana Maharshi

"Yes, one attains God through japa. By repeating the name of God secretly and in solitude, one receives divine grace. Then comes His vision. Higher than worship is japa, higher than japa is meditation, higher than meditation is bhava, and higher than bhāva are mahābhava and prema."

-Sri Ramakrishna

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

"One who makes a habit of prayer will easily overcome all difficulties and remain calm and unruffled in the midst of the trials of life."

-Sri Sarada Devi

"The man who sees evil, how can he live in this world? His life is a mass of misery.

The man who sees dangers, his life is a misery;

the man who sees death, his life is a misery.

That man alone can live in this world, he alone can say, "I enjoy this life, and I am happy in this life," who has seen the TRUTH, and the TRUTH in everything."

-SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

"In every moment you only have one real choice: to be aware of the Self or to identify with the body and the mind."

-Annamalal Swami

"Knowledge of Self-realization is not possible, unless there is the prior act of grinding all our impulses, desires, sins and the three Gunas, viz. Sattva, Rajas, Tamas, and the Ahankara, which is so subtle, and therefore, so difficult to be rid of."

-⁠Shri Sai Satcharitra

"While I am sitting in His mosque to show you Jnana Marga leading to salvation, you are coming to Me for wealth, fame, status and other materialistic desires? What is it that one has to achieve in his lifetime?

Is wealth the only thing? No, but wealth is also necessary - only up to the level of leading a normal life and that too with money earned the right way. Even if you earn and accumulate a lot of wealth out of greed, throughout your life, it is a fact that nothing will come with you after you die."

"My spiritual treasury is overflowing. I can give whatever devotees desire. They can also come and take away whatever amount they like. But they should qualify themselves for receiving it. But they are not willing to take what I give them, they want only what they desire. I am prepared to give them priceless gold. But they choose only earthly desires."

-⁠Shirdi Sai Baba

"Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore."

- Guru Nanak

"Unless we surrender our ego to the feet of our Sadguru, we will not succeed in our undertaking. If we become egoless, then our success is assured."

- ⁠Shri Sai Satcharitra

This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

-Swami Vivekananda

Always do your duty to others, but love you must give to God alone.

Worldly love always brings in its wake untold misery.

-Sarada Devi

Though a soul has received the grace of God, of a Guru, and of a good devotee, yet it meets with destruction through the lack of the grace of (a fourth) one.

One might have been fortunate enough to receive all the first three forms of grace, yet if one’s own heart shows no grace to itself — i.e., if it has no yearning to save itself — they are of no avail.

-Sri Ramakrishna