Sayings of the Holy Mother

“If you want peace, do not find fault with others. Rather see your own faults. Learn to make the world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; the whole world is your own.”

“Do not look for faults in others, or your own eyes will become faulty.”

“If one is without kindness, how can one be called a human being?”

“My son, work to remove the sufferings of the world.”

“The purpose of one’s life is fulfilled only when one is able to give joy to another.”

“As wind removes the cloud, so the Name of God destroys the cloud of worldliness.”

“May your body and mind become pure by repeating the Name of God!”

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

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

“One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetrated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all. Man, too, should be like that.”

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

“Difficulties always come, but they do not last forever. You will see that they pass away like water under a bridge.”

“My child, this mind is just like a wild elephant. It races with the wind. Therefore one should discriminate all the time.”

“All is in the mind — purity, as also impurity, is in the mind.”

“He who has a pure mind sees everything pure.”

“Everything, no doubt, happens by God’s will, yet man must work because God expresses His will through man’s action. Do not relax your spiritual practices.”

“God is not like fish or vegetables that you can buy Him for a price.”

“Faith and firmness are the basic things; if faith and firmness are there, then you have it all.”

“He who from childhood can place at the Master’s feet a heart as pure as a flower, is blessed indeed!”

“Why can’t one lead a good life if one is married? The mind alone is everything.”

“The Master regarded all creatures as manifestations of the Divine Mother. He left me behind to manifest the motherhood of God.”

“Your real Mother; not just the wife of your Guru, not an adopted mother, not a vague mother. Your real Mother.”

“My son, if so much as a thorn pricks one of you, a sword enters my heart!”

“I do not know anyone, not even an insect, for whom I do not feel compassion.”

“Ah! How kindly Sri Ramakrishna treated me! Not even one day did he utter a word to wound my feelings.”

“I then felt as if a pitcher of bliss was kept in my heart.”

“In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering.”