"PREMA or Love is a much-misused word. Any positive response to the attraction is called Love. Any feeling of attachment, however trivial and transitory, is characterised as Prema. We must certainly coin new words or set aside specific words to indicate the forms of Love. The attachment of parents to their children or of children to parents must be called affection. The love towards the opposite sex can be best described as fancy, fascination or delusion, Moha. The feeling of kinship or comradeship evokes dearness. The pleasure one gets through a sense of possession, especially of material objects, can be known as satisfaction. Only the yearning to reach for the sublimity that lies inherent in Truth is entitled to be called by that holy word 'Prema'."

"PEOPLE pray to God to relieve them from pain, grief and loss, to confer on them health, strength and wealth. But if you develop an intimate attachment to Him and make Him yours, then He will manage to give you all that you need. Do not demand the relationship into bargaining: give me this; then I shall give you that in exchange. If you insist on wages you become a coolie (laborer). Become His own. He is providing for the idler, the insane and the shirker: can He not provide for you ?"

"God is formless. In order to merge in the formless God, you have to give up identification with the body. There is only one Soul and that is God."

"Educated man must not run after glitter and glamour but instead, he must seek the good and golden. Educated man must realise that he has more obligations than privileges, more duties than rights.
Education does not mean only giving meaning to the words. Whatever is learnt in schools and colleges has to be practised and has to be used for the welfare of the society. That is true education."

"No water will come in the tap if the pipe is not connected with the regular supply system. Have you connected your act of service with the reservoir of Love in the heart? Are you doing it with good consciousness or is it merely a superficial ceremonial routine act, for pride and publicity? Diagnose and rectify."

"I speak harsh and punish some persons. If they are not mine, I would have given them up and not cared to take notice of their lapses; I have a right to chastise those whom I feel are mine."

"LOVE is the seed, courage is the blossom and peace is the fruit that the Sages grow in the garden of their hearts. They toiled for identifying themselves with the Truth, not for painting falsehood, with the authenticity of Truth and parading as if they had accomplished the mission on which they had come to earth. They achieved such success that Bharath was for centuries the Preceptor of Humanity; but now, the Preceptor has started taking lessons from the least intelligent of the pupils and rearing the head in pride when the pupil congratulates him."

"Education is a wasteful process unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom and wisdom is expressed in character."

"In order to get an idea of a mountain, it is not enough if you show a stone and say 'The mountain is a million times the size of this', you will have to see an actual mountain at least from a distance."

"By merely getting degrees you will not achieve much. Along with the degrees, develop general knowledge and common sense. It is no use having culture without education and education without culture. Education and culture are like the positive and negative ends and only by uniting these two can you get the electricity of divinity."

"Where there is a desire for mental tranquility, I hurry to grant tranquility. Where there is dispiritedness, I hasten to raise the drooping heart. Where there is no mental trust, I rush to restore trust. I am ever on the move to fulfil the mission for which I have come."

"SOCIAL service should not become show-cial service carried out for publicity or with the camera in view. Nor should it become show-cial work. Why go show, when you are doing good to the deserving ? Do as much as you can. If you cannot do any good, at least desist from doing harm; or from finding fault with those who serve you."

"By merely serving ME with your two little hands,looking at my vast universe with your two little eyes, listening to My Divine words through your two little ears will not get you far.  Also coming into My presence with your two little feet, will not fully serve your purpose.  However there is one thing you can do which have a great impact and produce a really worthwhile significant effect. And that is to install Me into your heart permanently."

"Man is burdened with the delusion that the true is the false, that the temporary is eternal. Long identification has trained him so. He has to be re-educated into the right vision. The truest thing, the fact that persists unchanged is the 'I' itself. All else is unreal, but appearing as real. You may ask, how is this so? I grow old; I change; I am healthy; I fall ill. But in and through all the growth and decay the 'I' persists. 'I slept well', you say. But during sleep you were not aware of the body, the senses, the mind or the external world. Yet the 'I' persisted through the dream world, through deep sleep."

"In order to attain and understand divinity, we must undertake sadhana and behave in a way that is like the divine."

"Let the different faiths exist. Let them flourish and let the glory of god be sung in all the languages of the world and in a variety of tunes. Respect the differences between the faiths and recognise them as valid as long as they do not extinguish the flame of unity. Know that the Lord is within you, then you will not be tempted into sin and fall into evil."

"Yasoda one day was searching for Krishna who had strayed away. She thought He went to the house of Radha and went there. Radha just closed her eyes and meditated on Krishna for a while and when she called "Krishna", Krishna was there. Then Yasoda shed tears of joy. She said, "I love Krishna as a mother. I have a sense of egoism in me that He is my son and that I must save Him from harm and seek to give Him guidance and protection. Your Prema is pure, it has no egoism promoting it"

"MANASA BHAJARE.... The very first lesson I gave when I declared My Identity at Uravakonda was : "Manasa Bhajare Gurucharanam, Dusthara Bhavasagara Tharanam." That is to say, first know that you are in Bhavasagara (ocean of worldly life); then resolve on Tharanam (crossing it); then fix on a Guru or the name and form of God which appeals to you; lastly; dwell on His glory, do Bhajan, but do it with all your mind. He, who is deluded by this relative reality is the Samsari (worldly person); he who is aware that it is only relatively real is the Sadhaka (spiritual aspirant)."

"When man taps the energy of the Divine in Himself, he can easily master Nature, which is only the vesture of the Divine. Through Truth you can experience Love; through Love, you can visualise Truth. Love God and you see God in every creature."

"If you have strong desire to see God, contemplate on Him with unwavering faith. Then you can see Him. Never doubt His existence.He exists for those who believe in His existence and does not exist for those who deny His existence. He acts according to your feelings. So, develop faith in Him.
You may have immense knowledge, wealth and valour, but you are bound to suffer if you become a slave to anger, desire and greed. Do not take pride in your wealth, physical strength and education. Develop the strength of love. Love can transform even a foe into a friend. Only through love can your life be redeemed."

"God is as close or distant as you imagine, say the Vedas. Your feelings alone take you closer to or farther from Divinity, because God is everywhere, at all times. God is present in the smallest of atoms and He encompasses the entire creation. Anoraneeyan Mahato Maheeyan (He is smaller than the smallest, vaster than the cosmos). When man resolves to reach that glorious Divinity, when he perseveres in spiritual enquiry with faith and devotion, he will definitely achieve his goal. But man does not strive to understand these concepts. He wastes his life in mundane activities. He does not give even a few moments to spiritual enquiry. This lack of Sraddha (steadfast faith) is a disease. Sraddhavan Labhate Jnanam (one with Sraddha acquires wisdom)."

"One may be wealthy but wealth is useless if one lacks character. After death, are you able to carry your bank balance with you? No. It will remain in the bank only. You cannot carry even a fistful of sand with you. So, character is most essential, not money. True education is that which removes the pollution of the mind and develops character."

"The Vedas say, Yad Bhavam Tad Bhavati (you become whatever you think). When you constantly think of others' faults, that evil enters you. How? When you have a camera in your hand, to whichever direction you turn and click, that is the picture you will capture. Your body is like a camera. Your vision is the lens, your heart is the film and your thoughts form the scene. Your intellect is the shutter. With your intellect, absorb only those impressions into your heart which are spiritual. If your thinking is bad, it gets imprinted on your heart. So, do not entertain bad thoughts."

"True education is that which teaches us the way to achieve world peace by removing narrow-mindedness and inculcating unity, fraternity and equality."

"True education is that which teaches us the way to achieve world peace by removing narrow-mindedness and inculcating unity, fraternity and equality."

"When a chauffeur is sought for, the owner of the car will select only a person who is an expert in the art, a man of character and a person who will be obedient to his employer. In all respects, he must be a good and useful employee. When such care is taken to choose a driver for the material vehicle, how much more should Buddhi, the chauffeur of the vehicle whose master is the Atma, be virtuous and skilled! Buddhi has no right to give a ride to anyone without the knowledge and permission of the master."