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• During those first months in America Shree Maa said very little in English. I was Her translator, and most frequently She spoke to me in our own personal mixture of languages which I would strive to interpret into English. One day She stood in front of an altar of Goddess Kali and in extremely clear English said to the Goddess, "All right, are you going to speak or not?" We were all amazed to hear Her utterance and even more impressed when She turned around and began to speak English so sweetly and clearly that there was no further use of a translator.

    – from Shree Maa: The Life of a Saint

• Shree Maa: I am always happy. When you live with divinity, you are always happy. It makes me even happier when my children are happy.

    – from Before Becoming This

• The difference between a disciple and a devotee is that the devotee comes to sit at the feet of the Guru but doesn't change his life. But the disciple takes the wisdom of the Guru and changes his life striving to become a mirror image of the Guru.

    – from Gems of Wisdom

• Ramakrishna: Protect the Divine Mother in your heart. May you see Her as I see Her and nobody else. You take away all my desires and my anger and my passion.

    – from Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss

• Ramakrishna: Give me the eyes of wisdom as protectors so that I am always protected and always be careful not to accede to bad desires and bad thoughts.

    – from Ramakrishna: The Nectar of Eternal Bliss

• Currently, I like to translate dharma as the ideal of perfection, because every atom of existence has its own ideal of perfection towards which it is striving. Every individual soul is destined to manifest its own ideal of perfection. Dharma is its individual path and every individual has its own.

    – from Shree Maa: The Guru and The Goddess

• Swamiji is so down to earth and unpretentious that he won't let himself get stuck in a "holy man" role. In fact, he is constantly breaking the rules about how an enlightened teacher should act. In the Tibetan tradition this is called "crazy wisdom", a quality many great masters possess.

    – from Sahib Sadhu: The White Sadhu

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