Bondage Is Of The Mind; Freedom Too

Brahman Is Beyond Mind And Speech, Beyond Concentration And Meditation, Beyond The Knower, The Known And Knowledge, Beyond Even The Conception Of The Real And Unreal. In Short, It Is Beyond All Relativity.

One Man May Read The Bhagavata By The Light Of A Lamp, And Another May Commit A Forgery By That Very Light; But The Lamp Is Unaffected. The Sun Sheds Its Light On The Wicked As Well As On The Virtuous.

Who May Be Called A Paramahamsa? He Who, Like A Swan, Can Take The Milk From A Mixture Of Milk And Water, Leaving Aside The Water. He Who, Like An Ant, Can Take The Sugar From A Mixture Of Sugar And Sand, Leaving Aside The Sand.

Many People Think They Cannot Have Knowledge Or Understanding Of God Without Reading Books. But Hearing Is Better Than Reading, And Seeing Is Better Than Hearing. Hearing About Benares Is Different From Reading About It; But Seeing Benares Is Different From Either Hearing Or Reading.

All Religions Are True. God Can Be Reached By Different Religions. Many Rivers Flow By Many Ways But They Fall Into The Sea. They All Are One.