Great Throughts Treasury

"Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray."

"O Friend, hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live; for in life deliverance abides. If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death? It is but an empty dream that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed form the body; if He is found now, He is found then; if not, we do not but go to dwell in the City of Death."

"The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten - that is all fantasy. What is found now is found then."

"What is God? He is the breath inside the breath."

"When you really look for me, you will see me instantly - you will find me in the tiniest house of time."

"The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; true faith resides in the heart."

"You do not see that the Real is in your own home, and wander from forest to forest furtively. Here is the truth! Go where you will, to Banaras or to Mathura, if you do not find go in your own soul, the world will be meaningless to you."

"All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop."

"What is seen is not the Truth. What is cannot be said. Trust comes not without seeing. Nor understanding without words. The wise comprehends with knowledge. To the ignorant it is but a wonder."

"The river that flows in you also flows in me."

"The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing,and its sound is love: When love renounces all limits, it reaches truth. How widely the fragrance spreads! It has no end, nothing stands in its way."

"Subtle is the path of love! Therein there is no asking and no not-asking, there one loses one’s self at His feet,there one is immersed in the joy of the seeking:plunged in the deeps of love as the fish in the water. The lover is never slow in offering his head for his Lord’s service."