God Cannot Be Realizxd If There Is

These People Are Like ... A Frog Living In A Well, Who Has Never Seen The Outside World. He Knows Only His Well, So He Will Not Believe That There Is Such A Thing As The World. Likewise, People Talk So Much About The World Because They Have Not Known The Joy Of God.

The Waves Belong To The Ganges, Not The Ganges To The Waves. A Man Cannot Realize God Unless He Gets Rid Of All Such Egotistic Ideas As "i Am Such An Important Man" Or "i Am So And So". Level The Mound Of "i" To The Ground By Dissolving It With Tears Of Devotion.

What Is The Use Of Merely Listening To Lectures? The Real Thing Is Practice.

It Is Very Pleasant To Scratch An Itching Ring-worm, But The Sensation One Gets Afterwards Is Very Painful And Intolerable. In The Same Way The Pleasures Of This World Are Very Attractive In The Beginning, But Their Consequences Are Terrible To Contemplate And Hard To Endure.

As A Toy Fruit Or A Toy Elephant Reminds One Of The Real Fruit And The Living Animal, So Do The Images That Are Worshipped Remind One Of The God Who Is Formless And Eternal.