- You may reason a thousand times and you will not go beyond the jurisdiction of Shakti without attaining the state of samadhi.
- When one continues to reason, one’s ‘I-ness’ vanishes completely. First you peel off the outer red skin of an onion, then the soft white one. One continues to peel in this way until nothing of the onion remains.
- According to the Vedanta philosophy, Brahman is without attributes. What its real nature is cannot be expressed in words.
- You can know Him in one way through reasoning and in another way through meditation. Again, when God reveals Himself by showing how He plays as man, it is yet a different experience.
- It is not good to reason too much. First God, then the world. Attain Him and then you will know about His world as well. When you talk to Jadu Mallick, you will know how many houses, how many gardens, and how many government securities he has.
- Don’t reason any more. Reasoning too much causes harm in the end – ultimately you become a person like Hazra. I used to walk around alone at night, weeping and saying, ‘Mother, strike my tendency to reason with a thunderbolt!’
- Discriminate between what is real and what is unreal. Reflect constantly on this: God alone is the reality, all else is ephemeral. Call on Him with yearning.
- You must not argue or reason for no purpose. However, you must reason about what is Real and what is unreal, what is permanent and what is impermanent. You must reason in times of passion, anger, or grief.
- Shaktas follow the Tantra while Vaishnavas follow the Puranas. It is not wrong for Vaishnavas to speak about their spiritual practices. But the followers of Tantra keep their practices secret. That’s why you can’t completely understand a Shakta.
- As long as a person reasons with the mind, the Absolute cannot be reached. As long as you reason with the mind, the world cannot be done away with. None of the senses of sight, taste, smell, touch, and speech can be got rid off. When reasoning stops, you attain the knowledge of Brahman.
- It isn’t good to reason too much. It’s enough to have love and devotion for the lotus feet of the Mother. Too much reasoning leads to utter confusion. If you take water from the surface of the pond here, you will get very clean water. But if you dip your hand deep into it and stir it, the water becomes muddy.