- Once you acquire faith, your work is done. There is nothing higher than faith.
- One who has faith in God can be saved from the vilest of sins, no matter what he may have done.
- One should have such faith in the name of God that one feels: ‘I have chanted His name. How can I still be a sinner? What sin is there for me? What bondage for me?’
- Spiritually advanced people have the nature of a child. Before God they are childlike; their egos vanish. They derive all their strength from God. It is the strength of the Father – nothing is their own. This is their firm conviction.
- The more faith you have, the more spiritual knowledge you will gain. A cow which is choosy in fodder doesn’t give much milk. But the cow that gobbles anything you give it – vegetable leaves and skin, straw – yields streams of milk.
- Unless you have the faith of a child, you can’t realize God. A mother says, ‘He is your elder brother.’ The child has such faith that he believes him to be his brother without the least doubt.
- God bestows His mercy on him who has the faith of a child. You cannot attain God with a worldly intellect.
- You can realize God by believing in Him without form and you can also realize God by believing in Him with form. What is needed is to have faith in Him and to surrender yourself.
- You have to have some kind of faith to take up any work. You think of your objective and take pleasure from that. Only then will you do the work.
- It is God who does everything. ‘He is the operator and I am the instrument.’ If you can have this faith, you will become liberated in this very life.
- People with such physical traits as a neck bone that is too prominent, and hollow or squint eyes, do not easily acquire faith.
- Jivakotis do not have faith easily. On the other hand, Ishvarakotis need no proof for their belief, they have unshakable faith. Prahlada began to weep suddenly when he wrote the letter ‘K’ because it reminded him of Krishna. The nature of the jiva is beset with doubts. He says, “Yes, it is so, no doubt, but …
- They say that Hanuman had so much faith in the name of Rama that he was able to leap over the sea by virtue of his faith. On the other hand, Rama had to build a bridge to cross it [from the Indian mainland to Sri Lanka].
- It is enough to have the faith that everything is possible in His creation. Don’t allow the idea to come to your mind that what you think is the only truth and that what everyone else thinks is false. Then God Himself will make you understand.
- Why should I meditate on God? If one truly has this understanding, one is already liberated in his lifetime. But not everybody has such faith. They only talk. Worldly people have heard that God exists and everything happens by His will. But they don’t have faith in it.
- One may perform worship, repetition of the Name, sandhya and other ritual practices, but they yield nothing unless one has faith in God.
- Have faith. Depend on Her. Having done this, you will not have to do anything. Mother Kali will do everything.