GOD-REALIZATION
The Self is free from any limitations the world can put upon you.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org
- Luke 17:21, Bible
He is infinite love, wisdom, joy.
I reside in the hearts of all beings.
- Gita 15:15, from The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality)
With the mountains, with the stone
Will I call Thee, Lord, o Lord!
With the birds in the early dawn
Will I call thee, Lord, o Lord!
With the fishes in the sea,
With gazelles in deserts free,
With the mystic's call "Oh He!"
Will I call Thee, Lord, o Lord!
- Yunus Emre, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself
a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
The truth has shared so much of itself with me that I can no longer
think of myself as a man, a woman, an angel, or even pure soul.
Existence has become so saturated with laughter it has freed me of every
concept and image a mind could ever war with.
- Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
“the living Yeshua is speaking in secret within and behind your heart”
- Tao Malachi, modern Jewish mystic
Know the true nature of your Beloved.
In His loving eyes, your every thought, word, and movement,
is always, always, beautiful.
- Hafiz
Now is the time to know
That all you do is sacred.
- Hafiz
...earthly language is entirely insufficient to describe what there is of joy, happiness and liveliness contained in the inner wonders of God.
- Jacob Behmen
"Be still and know that I am God" (Psalms 46:10). Never flaunting His omnipresence, the Lord is heard only in the immaculate silences.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org
The breath that does not repeat the name of God is a wasted breath.
- Kabir, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
Recollection is forgetting everything besides Him.
- Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi-L-Khayr, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
“I don’t look for Him and He doesn’t for me. I never found Him in any gurudwara, temple, church or mosque. But, I easily find him everyday in the music of a composer, in the voice of a singer, in the painting of a painter, in the writing of an author. He’s there in a monument, in a sculpture, in a piece of fashion garment, in a manuscript that lands on my desk for publication. I see Him in the innocent smile of that child standing half-naked with nose running in some far off village. I find Him in my friends who have taken me into their lives, their world, who are always there for me, who stand by me, who tolerate my various moods and eccentricities."
- Ashok Chopra, columnist in Times of India
“Narendra, God is an ocean of nectar. Tell me if you will dive into this sea or not? Well, imagine that there is a bowl full of sugar syrup and you are a fly. Where will you perch yourself and drink the syrup? Narendra said, ‘I will sit on the edge of the bowl, extend my mouth and sip from there; for if I go farther, I will get drowned.’ Then Swamiji said, ‘My son, this is the ocean of Sachchidananda. There is no fear of death in it. It is the ocean of immortality.’ Only the ajnanis (ignorant) say that one should not have excess of the nectar of God’s love and prema. Is there a limit to the love for God? So I say to you: Immerse yourself in the sea of Sachchidananda.”
- Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, speaking to Narendra, the future Swami Vivekananda
“But you cannot see Me with your present eyes. Therefore I give you divine eyes. Behold My mystic opulence!” …..
- Krishna in the The Bhagavad Gita
“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge”
- Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)