Miracle of Love Quotes

“IT’S BETTER TO SEE GOD IN EVERYTHING THAN TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“At times Maharajji’s behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. “I didn’t say not to hiss,” said the saint.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“Once a sadhu offered me some land that he had, so that I could have an ashram for fellow Westerners. I asked Maharajji about it. He said, “He wants to give you his attachment. It’s not a pure gift. If it were pure he’d just give it to you instead of talking about it.” (R.D.)”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“Once I was chastising Maharajji for giving photos to people who were worldly and didn’t care about him. He said, “You don’t understand me. If I tell a man he is a great bhakta (devotee). I am planting a seed. If a person already has the seed planted and growing, why should I plant another?” I said, “You are telling these drunkards, liars, and dacoits that they are real bhaktas. They will just go home and carry on their old behaviors.” Maharajji said, “Some of them will remember what I said of them, and it will make them want to develop this quality in themselves. If ten out of a hundred are inspired in this way, it is a very good thing.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“When Maharajji came out you never knew what to expect. He could do the same thing a week in a row until you’d think, “Well, he’ll come out at 8:00.” Then he might not come out all day, or he might just go into another room and close the door and be in there for two days. You had to learn to expect the unexpected. One day he came out and all he said all day long was “Thul-Thul, Nan-Nan,” repeating these words to himself like a mantra. Days went by like this and somebody finally said, “Maharajji, what are you saying?” And it turned out to be an old Behari dialect, and all it meant was “Too big, too big, too little, too little.” When he was finally asked why he was saying this, he said, “Oh, all you people, you all live in Thul-Thul, Nan-Nan; you live in the world of judgement. It’s always too big or too little.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“For many years before I met Maharajji I was searching, going here and there, studying this and that. I began following strict yogic codes—brahmacharya, 3:00 A.M. risings, cold baths, asanas, and dhyan. It was during a period when I had given up coffee and tea that I met Maharajji. Tea was being offered to all of us, and I didn’t know what to do. I said nothing but did not accept a cup of tea, and Maharajji leaned over to me, saying, “Won’t you take tea? Take tea! You should drink the tea. It’s good for you in this weather! Take tea!” So I drank the tea. With that one cup of tea, all those strict disciplines and schedules were washed away! They seemed meaningless and unnecessary; the true work seemed beyond these things. Now I do whatever comes of itself.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“The true devotees of God never wear saffron, carry malas (prayer beads), or put on sandalwood. You can’t know them unless they want it, and then you can only know them as much as they allow.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“LOVE IS THE STRONGEST MEDICINE. IT IS MORE POWERFUL THAN ELECTRICITY.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“SEE GOD IN EVERYONE. IT IS DECEPTION TO TEACH BY INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND KARMA.3”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“Maharajji would quote Kabir: “It is easy to dye your cloth, but it is hard to dye your heart.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind.” So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“The eyes of a saint are always concentrated on the Supreme Self. The minute he is aware of himself, sainthood is lost. – Neem Karoli Baba”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love

“Whose presence reveals how subtle is the path of Love.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“Dina Bandhu, Dina Nath, Mere dore tere hath”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“Once I asked Maharajji how it is possible for a man to remember God all the time. He told me the story of Narada (the celestial sage) and the butcher: Vishnu (one of the aspects of God) was always praising the butcher and Narada wondered why, since the butcher was always occupied and Narada spent twenty-four hours a day praising Vishnu. Vishnu gave Narada the task of carrying a bowl of oil, full to the brim, up to the top of a mountain, without spilling a drop. The task completed, Vishnu asked how many times Narada remembered Vishnu. Narada asked how that would be possible, since he had to concentrate on carrying the bowl and climbing the mountain. Vishnu sent Narada to the butcher and the butcher said that as he works he is always remembering God. Maharajji said then, “Whatever outer work you must do, do it; but train your mind in such a way that in your subconscious mind you remember God.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“Sub Ishwar hai”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“How do I know if a person is my guru?" a devotee asked Maharajji. "Do you feel he can free you from all desires, attachments, and so forth? DO you feel he can lead you to final liberation?”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love

“Maharajji invited a famous pundit to come to Kainchi and recite the Shrimad Bhagavatam. This man was used to reciting before large and very receptive crowds, and he complained to Maharajji that on this occasion he had to recite to only a few illiterate villagers. Maharajji gently rebuked him and said, “Don’t worry. Hanumanji is listening.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“About the miracle babas Maharajji would say, “What is this? This is all foolishness.” He could do miracles, but the greatest miracle was that he could turn one’s heart and mind toward God, as he did for me.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“WHEN YOU FINALLY arrived at the right place at the right time and were told, “Yes, he’s here,” and found yourself seated before him, what was it like? Even the tongues and hands of the gods and goddesses of speech, music, and poetry could not do justice to those occasions. So how could I? Like the blind men with the elephant, each devotee met a different Maharajji.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba

“A man said to Maharajji, “You’ve promised for years to visit my home and you have never come. I’m not going to come to see you anymore, because you won’t visit my home.” Maharajji said, “Oh, I didn’t understand! It’s your home. I had thought it was my home and so I didn’t need to visit.”
― Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba