Saint

Having thus acquired the rare gift of Devotion the sage prepared a funeral pile and discarding all attachment from his heart ascended it.

The sages, united with pure reason, renounce the results of their actions and, liberated from the cycle of birth, they attain a state of bliss.

The psychic personality within us blossoms as the saint, the sage, or the seer. When it reaches its full potential, it directs the being toward self-awareness and the divine, toward the highest truth, goodness, beauty, love, and bliss, and the divine expanses, opening us to the experience of spiritual sympathy, universality, and oneness.

A person who stays in the society just as the lotus does in water, is the real saint. Just as the lotus remains above water, uninfluenced by water even though it stands in it, a saint remains unattached even while he performs all his worldly duties; his real attachment is with God.

You saints, however, must wish for the welfare of all. This feeling takes root in the heart only when we see the image of the Formless One - God, in each and every human being.

Saints always show love only. The world may show any amount of hatred, but we must not leave our path of love.

All that brings happiness in life is achieved through the grace of the company of saints. The more we attend congregations, the more our life becomes enriched with saintly qualities. Our heart begins to absorb love and humility, which are the sources of all kinds of happiness.

This is why saints always live in God's bliss and constantly praise Him.

Saints know that wealth, body, and soul are gifts from God and belong to Him.

Saints love God for the sake of love, and a devotee never complains.

A saint lives according to God's will.

When this boat of human body moves on the surface of water, it is welcome, but when water enters the boat, it brings trouble. The saints do live in this world, but they do not permit it to enter their minds.

Even the gods, celestial singers, divine musicians, ancestral spirits, yakṣas, wandering bards, and the sages themselves do not fully know the proper manner of serving the Guru.

A saint has been considered more valuable even than Paras. Paras converts iron into gold, while a saint converts the seeker of his company into a saint like himself.

An unenlightened person lives in this world and his mind is also occupied by this world all the time. A saint too lives in this world, but he does not allow it to occupy his mind. He puts this Almighty Nirankar there. And this is the most important secret of his joy.

He came upon a man beneath a cart, scratching his itch, and sat down near him. He addressed him, "Sir, are you Raikva with the cart?" "I am indeed," he acknowledged. The attendant returned, saying, "I have found him."

Man gets the feeling of contentment only when he attaches importance to God instead of worldly materials. Saints do not give importance to Maya; they consider Mayapati as more important. They may have worldly wealth or not, they are not upset. They are always content and feel grateful to God for whatever little they are blessed with.

A person who holds the Creator in high esteem, accepts God as the master of everything, considers that all his joys are because of the Almighty, is really a saint.

Only such a person is known to be a saint, a devotee, as may have the desire to learn and keep learning throughout his life. Whosoever considers himself complete and is proud of himself cannot march forward; in a way, he hinders his own progress.

The saints who bring happiness in the life of others, who adopt this practice, create in fact a place for themselves in the hearts of others. Their influence does not last for ten or twenty years; it remains there for ages.