"Who is God? What is God? Is there a God? Where is God? How to realize God? Man wants an answer to these eternal questions. Certainly there is God. God exists. He is the only reality. God is your creator, savior and redeemer. He is all-pervading. He dwells in your heart. He is always near you. He is nearer to you than your jugular vein or nose. He loves you. He can talk to you. You cannot find God by the intellect. But, you can find Him by feeling, meditation, experience and realization."
"The jasmine does not speak, but it wafts its fragrance everywhere. The lighthouse sounds no drum, but sends its friendly light to the mariner. The Unseen beats no gong, but Its omnipresence is felt by the dispassionate and discriminating sage.
"Behind all name and forms is the one nameless, formless Essence. Behind all governors is the one Supreme Governor of governors. Behind all lights is the one Light of lights. Behind all sounds, there is the soundless Supreme Silence. Behind all teachers is the one Supreme Guru of Gurus.
"Behind all these perishable objects is the one imperishable Absolute. Behind all these motions is the one motionless Infinite. Behind time, minutes and days is the one timeless Eternity. Behind hatred, riots and wars is the one hidden Love.
"God is the totality of all that exists, both animate and inanimate, sentient and insentient. He is free from ills and limitations. He is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. He has no beginning, middle or end. He is the indweller in all beings. He controls from within.
"God is all in all. God is the only reality in this universe. The existence of things is by the light of God.
"God is ever living. All depend on him. He is not depending on any. He is the Truth.
"God is the end or goal of all Yoga Sadhanas. He is the centre towards which all things strive. He is the highest purpose or highest good in the world. You have the urge of hunger. There is food to appease the hunger. You have the urge of thirst. There is water to quench the thirst. There is the urge to be always happy. There must be something to satisfy this urge. This something is God, an embodiment of happiness. God, Immortality, Freedom, Perfection, Peace, Bliss, Love are synonymous terms."
"What is God? It is hard to tell. But, when I look at the Ganga, I know it is God. When I see jasmine, I know it is God. When I behold the blue sky, I know it is God. When I hear the chirping of birds, I know it is God. When I tast honey, I know it is God.
"The Supreme is indefinable, though scholars give intellectual accounts of It which are not absolutely true.
"Every man has his own conception of God...The greatest and most important thing in all the world is to get a right concept of God, because your belief about God governs your entire your life."
"Is there a God? God is beyond human imagination, but he is a living reality. Brahman is no metaphysical abstraction. It is the fullest and the most real being. The existence of God cannot be proved by scientific experimentation. The Absolute baffles the mind of even the greatest scholar. It eludes the grasp of even the mightiest intellect. It is experiences as pure consciousness, where intellect dies, scholarship perishes, and the entire being itself is completely lost in It. All is lost, and all is found...Though you do not see the stars in the daytime, yet they do exist. Though you cannot see the sun during a cloudy day, yet it does exist. Even so, though you cannot see God with these physical eyes, yet He does exist. If you get the divine eye or the eye of intuition by the practice of meditation, you will behold him."
"Where is God? There is nowhere where He is not. Just as one thread penetrates all the flowers in a garland, so also, one Self penetrates all these living beings. He is hidden in all beings and forms, like oil in seed, butter in milk, mind in brain, Prana in the body, fetus in the womb, sun behind the clouds, fire in wood, vapor in the atmosphere, salt in water, scent in flowers, sound in the gramophone records, gold in quartz, microbes in blood.
"God dwells in all beings as life and consciousness...Feel his presence everywhere...God pervades the entire universe. He walks in the garbs of a beggar. He moans is pain in the guise of the sick. He wanders in the forest clad in rags. Open your eyes. See Him in all. Serve all. Love all.
"Feel the Divine Presence everywhere--in every form, in every thought, in every feeling and in every sentiment, in every movement, in every emotion.
"God, seen through the senses, is matter. God, seen through the intellect, is mind. God, seen through the spirit, is Atman or the Self.
"Thou art indwelt by the Lord. He is the inner ruler, Antaryamin, guarding and controlling your life. He is in you and you are in Him. He is quite close to you. He is not very far, but is nearer to you than you are to yourself. You were thinking in the beginning that He could be found only in Mount Kailas, Ramesvaram, Mecca, Jerusalem, sky or heaven. You had very vague ideas. This body is His moving temple. The sanctum santorum is the chamber of your own heart. Close your eyes. Withdraw from the sensual objects. Search Him in thy heart with one-pointed mind, devotion and pure love. You will surely find him."
"How to realise God? God is a question of supply and demand. If you really yearn for His Darshan, He will reveal Himself to you in an instant."
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