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Both the worshiper and the worshiped had left the mental plane and became united in the transcendental. And there they merged, only the two physical bodies remained at that spot. Now try to understand, O my mind, the real meaning of this marriage!

I asked him, “Who am I to you?” He instantly replied, “You are my Blissful Divine Mother”.

But how can the world ever come to know about his chaste wife’s divine character and self control unless revealed by Him? It seems it was for this reason that the Master, of his own accord, had told his devotees: “If she had not been pure as she really was, if she had lost self-control and seduced me, then who can say if I too might have not lost self-control and come down to the physical plane?”

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.

and that, had it not been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not been for the second, into torment.

His whole heart melted in gratitude, and he loved more and more

And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit of him, and when the galleys were again yawning;

Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple women, that silent cloister, slowly permeated him, and little by little, his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children.

he felt something depart from him, and something descend upon him, mysterious interchanges of the depths of the soul with the depths of the universe.

In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night inhale their perfume, lighted like a lamp in the center of the starry night, expanding his soul in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of creation, he could not himself perhaps have told what was passing in his own mind;

He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkness by the visible splendors of the constellations, and the invisible splendor of God, opening his soul to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.