Suppose a man becomes pure by chanting the holy name of God, but immediately afterwards commits many sins. He has no strength of mind. He doesn't take a vow not to repeat his sins.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

A poor devotee points to the sky and says, "God is up there." An average devotee says, "God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master." The best devotee says, "God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God.

God cannot be seen so long as there is the slightest taint of desire. Therefore have your minor desires satisfied , and renounce the major ones through right reasoning and discrimination.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.