Sarada Devi Quotes:

Let me tell you how to love all equally. Do not demand anything of those you love. If you make demands, some will give you more and some less. In that case you will love more those who give you more and less those who give you less. Thus your love will not be the same for all. You will not be able to love all impartially.

Topics: Giving, Able, How To Love, Sameness, Impartiality

God cannot be realized without love. Yes, sincere love.

source: - "A Short Life of Holy Mother" by Swami Pavitrananda, (p. 88), 2010.

Topics: Sincere, Sincere Love

You see, my son, it is not a fact that you will never face dangers. Difficulties always come, but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.

source: - "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 370), 2004.

Topics: Son, Bridges, Water

I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.

Topics: Children, Mind, World

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

Topics: Earth, Be Patient, Patient

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Topics: Wind, Names, Clouds, Blown Away

Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.

source: - Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

Topics: Impossible, Devotion, Impossible Becomes Possible

As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain spiritual awakening by constantly thinking of God.

Topics: Spiritual, Flower, Thinking, Constantly Thinking, Rubbing It

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

Topics: Simple, Men, World, Simple Truths

No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result, and one gets one's opportunities accordingly.

source: - Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

Topics: Opportunity, Suffering, Earth

My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.

Topics: Son, Virtue, My Son, Forbearance

The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.

Topics: Mother, Evil, Good And Evil

If one calls upon Him repeatedly, He becomes compassionate; and so a devoted attachment comes into being. This love for love's sake should be hidden from all eyes.

Topics: Eye, Attachment, Sake

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

Topics: Roots, Suffering, Desire, Birth And Death

Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

Topics: Tree, Desire, Growing

As long as a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the desires alone that make him take one body after another. There will be rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy.

source: - "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 292), 2004.

Topics: Men, Long, Desire

The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.

source: - Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

Topics: Mind, Peace Of Mind, World, Transitory

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

source: - "Holy Mother". "Prabuddha Bharatha" Journal, 1969.

Topics: Contentment, Treasure, Fortitude

Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

Topics: Men, People, Arguing

Everything, husband, wife, or even the body, is only illusory. These are all shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages, you will never be able to go to the other shore of the world.

Topics: Husband, Wife, Body, Husband Wife

I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.

Topics: Mind, Peace Of Mind, Faults

When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find that He who resides in one's heart, resides in the hearts of others as well - the oppressed, the persecuted, the untouchable, and the outcast.

Topics: God, Spiritual, Heart, Untouchables

I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, ‘I have a mother.

Topics: Mother, Wicked, Virtuous

Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things.

Topics: Mind, Inquiry, Distraction

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

source: - FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jun 06, 2016

Topics: Men, Play, Differences, Ordinary Man

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

Topics: Ordinary, Misery, God Love, Blessedness, Human Love

What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.

Topics: Two, Mind, Awakening

The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?

source: - Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

Topics: Grief, Joy, Sorrow

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.

Topics: Mother, Addresses, Refuse

People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.

Topics: Pain, Grief, Compassion

Realization of God cannot be achieved without ecstatic love for Him.

Topics: Realization, Ecstatic Love, Ecstatic

One suffers as a result of one's own actions. So, instead of blaming others for such sufferings, one should pray to the Lord and depending entirely on His grace, try to bear them patiently and with forbearance under all circumstances.

Topics: Grace, Suffering, Trying, Blaming Others

My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.

source: - Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

Topics: Children, Heart, Long

However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.

source: - Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

Topics: Beautiful, Strong, People

He who will pray to God eagerly will see Him.

Topics: Praying, Praying To God

The grace of God is the thing that is needful. One should pray for the grace of God.

Topics: Grace, Praying, Should

The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now.

Topics: Dream, Night, World, Whole World

He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.

Topics: Grace, Ecstatic Love, Praying, Bhakti

One should perform even an insignificant task with respect.

Topics: Honor, Tasks, Should

Pray to God and make your heart as pure as the star.

Topics: Stars, Heart, Praying

Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea

Topics: Giving Up, Philosophy, Trying

Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.

Topics: Doubt, Return, Questioning

In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.

Topics: Enlightenment, Doe, Deities

Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind.

Topics: Grief, Heart, Giving

Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.

source: - "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations". Book by Swami Nikhilananda, August 31, 2004.

Topics: Eye, Illumination, Giving, Impurity, Tears In Your Eyes

The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.

Topics: Night, Mind, Calling

One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.

Topics: Hurt, Compassion, Speak

The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again.

Topics: People, Desire, World

A person may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and thus make him worldly. This is how She plays!

Topics: Cat, Play, May

If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.

Topics: Thinking, Names, Evil

We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.

source: - "The Holy Mother's Reminiscences". "Vedanta Kesari" Magazine,

Topics: Suffering, Action, Blame

He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him?

Topics: Thinking, Evil, Way

No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

Topics: Karma, Past, Suffering

Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.

source: - "Thus Spake the Holy Mother" by Sarada Devi, (pp. 72-73), 1985.

Topics: Names, Mind, Suffering, Human Form

Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.

Topics: Sacrifice, Omission, Humanity

Rebirth is inevitable so long as one has desires. It is like taking the soul from one pillow-case and putting it into another. Only one or two out of many men can be found who are free from all desires.

Topics: Men, Two, Long

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.

source: - "The Temple Dedication Souvenir". Book by Sarada Devi, 1981.

Topics: Children, Goal, Have Faith

Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.

Topics: Evil, Deeds, Today, Such Is Life, Here Today Gone Tomorrow

This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.

Topics: Moving, Desire, World

We have to surrender ourselves completely to the Lord with faith and devotion in Him, serve others to the best of our capacity, and never be a source of sorrow to anybody.

source: - "The Holy Mother's Reminiscences". "Vedanta Kesari" Magazine,

Topics: Sorrow, Surrender, Lord

Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.

Topics: Real, Book, Reading