"Guru, God and Self are one." - Ramana Maharshi

"Silence thy thoughts and fix thy whole attention on thy master, whom thou dost not see, but whom thou feelest."
- Blavatsky

"The influence of the Guru is obstructed by mental activity, by reliance on one's own exertions and by every kind of self-consciousness and self-exertion."
- Sathya Sai Baba

"What is the nature of Guru's grace? It is beyond thought and word. Then how can it be said that the devotee realises his true Being by virtue of the Guru's grace? It is like the elephant which wakes up on seeing a lion in its dream. Even as the elephant wakes up at the mere sight of the lion, so too is it certain that the disciple wakes up from the sleep of ignorance to the knowledge of Real. It is true and certain."
- Ramana Maharshi

Disembodied Guru to Disciple: "Child you must meditate more. Your gaze is not yet faultless. I was fairly extinguished in the ether by agitation of your restless mind."
- Babaji

"I beseeched him fervently thus: 'It is my great desire that I should actually experience your gracious wisdom. Kindly fulfill my desire'. In those days Sri Ramana was not speaking much. Still he spoke kindly as follows: 'Is it the body in front of me which desires to obtain my grace? Or is the awareness within it? If it is the awareness is it now looking up on itself as the body and making this request? If so let the awareness first of all know its real nature. It will then automatically know God and my grace. The truth of this can be realised even now and here."
-Ramana Maharshi's Magazine

"Rain-water falling upon the roof of a house flows down to the ground through spouts shaped grotesquely like the tiger's head. One gets the impression that the water flows from the tiger's mouth, but in reality it descends from the sky. In the same way the holy teachings that comes from the mouth of godly men seem to be uttered by those men themselves, while in reality they proceed from God."
- Ramakrishna