Through Selfless Work, Love Of God Grows

When An Unbaked Pot Is Broken, The Potter Can Use The Mud To Make A New One; But When A Baked One Is Broken, He Cannot Do The Same Any Longer. So When A Person Dies In A State Of Ignorance, He Is Born Again; But When He Becomes Well Baked In The Fire Of True Knowledge And Dies A Perfect Man, He Is Not Born Again.

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.

It's Enough To Have Faith In One Aspect Of God. You Have Faith In God Without Form. That Is Very Good. But Never Get Into Your Head That Your Faith Alone Is True And Every Other Is False. Know For Certain That God Without Form Is Real And That God With Form Is Also Real. Then Hold Fast To Whichever Faith Appeals To You.

One Should Not Think, 'my Religion Alone Is The Right Path And Other Religions Are False.' God Can Be Realized By Means Of All Paths. It Is Enough To Have Sincere Yearning For God. Infinite Are The Paths And Infinite Are The Opinions.

What Brahman Is Cannot Be Described. All Things In The World — The Vedas, The Puranas, The Tantras, The Six Systems Of Philosophy — Have Been Defiled, Like Food That Has Been Touched By The Tongue, For They Have Been Read Or Uttered By The Tongue. Only One Thing Has Not Been Defiled In This Way, And That Is Brahman. No One Has Ever Been Able To Say What Brahman Is.