Explore · 31 sayings

Devotion & Love

God is love, and love is God.
Volume 6 · Divine Love
The perfect man sees nothing but God.
Volume 2 · Bhakti or Devotion
The name of God is greater than God.
Volume 8 · Sayings and Utterances
Only the Lord is unchangeable and He is Love.
Volume 8 · XCI Miss Noble
The way of all ways to realisation is love.
Volume 8 · The Essence of Religion
Life in this world is an attempt to see God.
Volume 8 · Jnana and Karma
It is unswerving love and perfect unselfishness that conquer everything.
Volume 8 · LXXXI Goodwin
It is the heart that reaches the goal. Follow the heart.
Volume 1 · Steps to Realisation
He who desires God will get Love, unto him God gives Himself.
Volume 4 · The First Steps
Music is the highest art and, to those who understand is the highest worship.
Volume 5 · LXXIII Madam
The whole world is full of the Lord. Open your eyes and see Him.
Volume 2 · God in Everything
In the tiger and in the lamb, in the saint and sinner all He!
Volume 6 · LXII Mrs. Bull
The Guru is the bright mask which God wears in order to come to us.
Volume 8 · Discipleship
It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect.
Volume 2 · God in Everything
Love knows no fear. You may cut me to pieces, and I still love you.
Volume 6 · Divine Love
Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.
Volume 8 · Discourses on Jnana-Yoga: II
Always cultivate the heart; through the heart the Lord speaks, and through the intellect you yourself speak.
Volume 1 · Steps to Realisation
Love opens the most impossible gates; love is the gate to all the secrets of the universe.
Volume 3 · My Plan of Campaign
Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.
Volume 8 · Discourses on Jnana-Yoga: VII
Love banishes all fear. A mother with her baby will face a tiger to save her child.
Volume 8 · Four Paths of Yoga
Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?
Volume 3 · Human Representations of the Divine Ideal of Love
Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.
Volume 9 · The Religion of India
Do not make the mistake of giving the heart to anything that is changing, because that is misery.
Volume 4 · The Great Teachers of the World
To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal. Pure Existence-knowledge-and-love is the goal; and Love is God.
Volume 6 · Lessons on Raja-Yoga
Beggar’s love is no love at all. The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything.
Volume 6 · Divine Love
God is a circle with circumference nowhere and centre everywhere. Every point in that circle is living, conscious, active, and equally working.
Volume 5 · On Jnana-Yoga
We must worship the beautiful for beauty's sake, not for the hope of reward. Thus in the purity of our hearts shall we see God.
Volume 4 · Indian Religious Thought
Eternal, unquestioning self – surrender to Mother alone can give us peace. Love Her for Herself, without fear or favour. Love Her because you are Her child.
Volume 8 · The Worship of the Divine Mother
With love there is no painful reaction; love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it is not love; it is mistaking something else for love.
Volume 1 · The Secret of Work
Bhakti is intense love for God.
Volume 6 · Narada-Bhakti-Sutras
There is no condition in grace.
Volume 6 · VI