Our aspirations, our affections, and our desires are turned towards the wrong things. And only when we turn them towards the right things will things get better.
Rituals that are performed with the desire of attaining salvation also help a man to achieve growth and progress in this world.
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments.
O Lord! I may have increased desire for the objective world like other people but with this difference that I shall look upon it as Thyself without any idea of duality.
For which of you desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
If your kingdom exists for the doctrine and not for fame or desire, then it will be extremely fruitful. If not, its fruit will be misfortune.
The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
