Activity can save, as well as kill; it is like the cat which bites; it bites the kitten in order to carry it in its mouth to a place of safety; it bites the rat in order to kill and eat. Become the kitten; and work will rescue you like a loving Mother. Become a rat; and you are lost. (SSS Vol.1, p. 12)

The rat which, attracted by the strong smelling cheap stuff inside the trap, neglects all other articles of food in the granary and falls a prey to its foolishness, man too neglects his real sustenance and wastes his life in pursuits of mortal riches. (SSS Vol.1, p. 107)

The best Guru is the divine in you; yearn for hearing His voice, His Upadesha. If you seek worldly Gurus, you will have to run from one to another, like a rat caught inside a drum, which flees to the right when the drummer beats on the left, and to the left when the drummer beats the right. (SSS Vol.18, p. 82)