-- Do you think that there is any fixed catalogued price of so much austerity, so much japam, so much charity etc. for God-Realization?
-- None can force realization of Him!
-- But if you don't keep up a regular spiritual struggle, you will not able to hold it when it comes.

-- Every man should do something good, that is some selfless deed.
-- All by nature, work to support themselves & their families.
-- By something good I mean activity done without any attachment.
-- If you can help a poor man by giving him food, or educate a needy boy by providing his board & lodging according to your means, that will be sufficient.
-- In cases that are beyond your means, you can engage in such good deeds in cooperation with friends of yours.
-- Many activities of this nature you will find close at hand. If you wish to do them, you can easily do so.
-- With the practice of meditation, peace of mind will grow, & then alone will you be in a position to undertake humanitarian activities in the right spirit....
-- Meditation on God will obliterate the ego, & He will then be all in all.
-- Only when your mind reaches this state, will you be able to do genuine philanthropic work.

-- What will it avail if one makes charity with money stolen from others?
-- To live long on the charity of others is as good as death.
-- It is useless for a slanderer to repeat the name of God.
-- This is why Jesus said "Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the alter, & there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee; leave there thy gift before the alter, & go thy way; first be reconsiled to thy brother & then come & offer thy gift".
-- We are all in the world, & where can we go, leaving it aside?
-- But doing good to the world is not an end in itself.
-- The world will remain as it is.
-- As Sri Ramakrishna used to say, it is but a dog's tail, which won't straighten up.
-- In trying to help the world, you help yourself -- you realize your Freedom.

-- If the desire to do some charitable work arises in the mind of a rich man, it shows that his heart has started to feel for the poor.
-- God tests a man by making him wealthy, & that is a hard test to pass.
-- Tests devised by men are easy to pass, but divine tests are very difficult.
-- God may give plenty of riches to one man, but so delude him by Maya that he will never in his life desire to be charitable.
-- Again, God my give a generous heart to another person, but not give him much money.
-- Blessed indeed are they who are rich & yet feel for thr poor.
-- Every action brings a corresponding result
-- A man will get social merit through his philanthropic activities, but if his ego is involved in those activities, he will not get any spiritual merit.
-- Even the result of a good action turns into a bondage if it is done with ego.