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Be conscious always that the God that you pray to is within you and everywhere about you. His protection and grace are there ever for you. Be always aware that He is guiding you from within.
- Swami Ramdas

To be in constant awareness of Him means purity, strength, courage and peace; because God is all power, knowledge and bliss.
- Swami Ramdas

Be conscious that the Lord seated in your heart is your all-powerful protector. Keep Him ever in your remembrance. Tune your thought and life with His radiant existence, and thus permit His divine energy to flow into you and transform your life into one of peace and joy. Don't give yourself away to dejection, doubt and despair.
- Swami Ramdas

The whole universe is indeed a blissful manifestation of Sri Ram. Every form in it is a wave and movement of His infinite love. Diversity and discord are unreal-- off-springs of a mind deluded by ignorance. Unity and harmony are the true attributes of that Truth, in whom God, universe and man are one.
- Swami Ramdas

To always keep the name of God on the lips or in the mind is not the whole thing in the matter of God-remembrance. Constant repetition of the name ultimately takes you to the consciousness of God wherein remembrance of Him as such ceases. Thereafter you maintain a steady consciousness of the indwelling Reality. Self- surrender denotes this supreme state.
- Swami Ramdas

From whatsoever angle Ramdas looks at the world, he finds nothing wrong anywhere. Everything is as it should be. Because one Truth pervades everywhere--one life has revealed itself in infinite forms. So you are all children of that Truth--that Life--nay you are yourself the Truth--the Life.
- Swami Ramdas

Surely life has a beautiful meaning and purpose when it is understood to be of an universal nature and significance. The utmost grandeur of it is revealed when it breaks through every sense of division and diversity, and sheds all around soothing light of pure, spontaneous love--the rapture of an inexplicable joy and peace.
- Swami Ramdas

The man who does not behold the finger of God working in all events and happenings experiences needless suffering. Therefore, peace and contentment belong only to those who have submitted, in all the vicissitudes of life, to the supreme will of God.
- Swami Ramdas

When the flow of life becomes spontaneous, it is always surcharged with the glory of pure love and service. What a splendid gift is human life!
- Swami Ramdas

If you unite yourself with your all-powerful and immortal Self through meditation, you will gain untold strength and will conquer every weakness. Go on with the practice. By continued effort you will succeed.
- Swami Ramdas

In all situations maintain a steady consciousness of Divinity within and about you. Do not harass your mind with thoughts of weakness. Infinite strength is within you. Drawing inspiration and power from this source, be cheerful and contented at all times. Let the name of the Lord dwell ever in your mind!
- Swami Ramdas

Devotion to God who is seated in the hearts of us all is the one path that leads the struggling soul to the haven of perfect peace and joy. Bereft of devotion, life is dry and tasteless. Devotion sweetens life and frees it from the bond of ignorance. Devotion means loving remembrance of God. Blessed indeed is the heart which adores the Lord and are the lips which utter His nectar-like name.
- Swami Ramdas

The world is a grand display of the Lord's lila. In fact each one of you, playing an individual part in it, is Himself in His self-expression. In the light of this knowledge and vision, you are all eternally one; the appearance of diversity belongs only to the surface.
- Swami Ramdas

Try to enter into the mysterious origin of your and the world-life. To know who you are in reality is the real quest. To arrive at this truth you have to, by a systematized process of thought and discipline, transcend all human limitations set by the body, mind and intellect, and then, embarking on the realm of the Spirit, realize your immortal, changeless and blissful nature. This constitutes religion.
- Swami Ramdas

In the play of external nature, the so-called changes, losses and failures are inevitable. If it were not so, the universal divine game would not be there before you. Therefore, view all things as a dispassionate witness and find your union and oneness with the all-inclusive swarup of God.
- Swami Ramdas

Truly when you become the smallest child of the Divine Mother, you merge your little individuality in Her cosmic personality. Here you realize that the Mother and the child are one.
- Swami Ramdas

In the entire universe, He pervades as Shakti--the universe itself being His form. He is most manifest in man. Mahatmas and Bhaktas are He in full manifestation. Service of them results in the realization of Sri Ram in His personal aspect, i.e., as Love. Sri Ram is ever seated in the hearts of us all and we are all His forms.
- Swami Ramdas

Surrender to Sri Ram, the Infinite existence, splendour, power, knowledge, purity and bliss, who tears off this false curtain that shuts your eyes to His glory and magnificence. How to surrender to Him? Universal love, universal love--that is the path.
- Swami Ramdas

The sun by his very nature can shed only light and is incapable of producing darkness. Similarly, the Mother's doings are always in every way beneficial. In Her there is no evil. The so-called evil is the product of a mind that has no faith in Her. Pray to Her this wise--"Oh, Mother of the worlds, I am Thy ignorant child. Guide and control me as Thou wilt. Thou art my only protector and I am Thy child. I am ever Thine. Bear me always in Thy bosom as Thy eternal child. This is the refuge I seek. Eternity is the link that unites me to Thee. Being ever in tune with Thee, let me be Thy child.
- Swami Ramdas

Some people prefer to call themselves sinners. They must be wishing to enjoy the fun of it. Else, what to make of the way they speak of themselves? They are offering a direct insult to God when they dub themselves sinners. This is as good as denying His very existence. If you believe that He is, you would not care to know whether you are a monument of virtue or mountain of iniquity. You would only feel that you are simply as God made you.
- Swami Ramdas