Once A Person Has Faith, He Has

One Man May Read The Bhagavata By The Light Of A Lamp, And Another May Commit A Forgery By That Very Light; But The Lamp Is Unaffected. The Sun Sheds Its Light On The Wicked As Well As On The Virtuous.

One Cannot Completely Get Rid Of The Six Passions: Lust, Anger, Greed, And The Like. Therefore One Should Direct Them To God. If You Must Have Desire And Greed, Then You Should Desire Love Of God And Be Greedy To Attain Him.

How Long Do Small Girls Play With Their Dolls? As Long As They Are Not Married And Do Not Live With Their Husbands. After Marriage They Put The Dolls Away In A Box. What Further Need Is There Of Worshipping The Image After The Vision Of God?

The Rishis Of Old Attained The Knowledge Of Brahman. One Cannot Have This So Long As There Is The Slightest Trace Of Worldliness. How Hard The Rishis Laboured ! Early In The Morning They Would Go Away From The Hermitage, And Would Spend The Whole Day In Solitude, Meditating On Brahman. At Night They Would Return To The Hermitage And Eat A Little Fruit Or Roots. They Kept Their Mind Aloof From The Objects Of Sight, Hearing, Touch, And Other Things Of A Worldly Nature. Only Thus Did They Realize Brahman As Their Own Inner Conciousness.

If You First Fortify Yourself With The True Knowledge Of The Universal Self, And Then Live In The Midst Of Wealth And Worldliness, Surely They Will In No Way Affect You.