- You can see God if you have these three attachments combined: the attachment of a worldly man to things of the world, the attachment of a mother to her child, and the attachment of a chaste wife to her husband. If these three attachments are united, their combined power makes it possible to see God.
- Does a magnet invite iron by saying, ‘Come near?’ It doesn’t have to say that; the iron rushes to the magnet because of the magnet’s attraction.
- Sometimes God is the magnet and the devotee a needle. By His power of attraction, He pulls the devotee. But sometimes the devotee becomes the magnet and God the needle. The devotee’s attraction is so strong that, enchanted by his ecstatic love, God Himself comes to him.