- Openness and simplicity doesn’t come without a great deal of austerity in previous births. A cunning and calculating person can’t realize God.
- Wherever God has incarnated Himself, there has been guilelessness? How simple was Dasharatha (father of Lord Rama)! Nanda Ghosh, Sri Krishna’s father, was free from guile.
- Unless you are simple at heart, you can’t have faith in God easily. God is very far from a person having a worldly intellect. A worldly intellect creates doubts, and different kinds of pride appear – the pride of learning, the pride of wealth, and so on.
- One can easily realize God if he is guileless. Spiritual instructions work faster in a guileless heart. It is like a well-tilled field without stones or pebbles. The moment a seed falls on the ground, it germinates. And it quickly bears fruit.
- One can realize God when one is simple and guileless at heart.
- According to the Ghoshpara sect, God is called ‘sahaja,’ or ‘simple.’ They say you can’t recognize the Simple without being simple yourself.
- You cannot realize God if you’re not large-hearted and guileless. Unless your mind is free from calculating this and that, you cannot be simple or large-hearted.
- Where there is an incarnation of God, there is guilelessness – Nandaghosh, Dasharatha, and Vasudeva were all simple at heart.
- Vedanta tells us that unless you have a pure mind, you don’t feel the desire to know God. Only in one’s last birth or after practicing long austerities, does one become broad-minded and guileless.
- A person who is guileless realizes God quickly. There are two paths – good, toward God, and bad, toward the world. He should take the good path toward Reality.
- Pray with a guileless mind, ‘O Lord, reveal Yourself to me!’ Weep! Say, ‘O Lord, please take my mind off ‘lust and greed!’’
- If a person is sincere, he realizes God soon. There are some who do not attain knowledge: One, a person who has a crooked mind – insincere. Two, one who is obsessed with external purity. And three, one who doubts.