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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Ramakrishna

God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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Answer Deep Heart Hidden Philosopher Prayer Stone True
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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Good Grain Lift Man May Men Pious Sand Sugar Together
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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Lecture Merely Persistence Practice Real Use
One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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Alone Mean Path Realized Religion Right Thinking
They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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Action Do Good Replete Whatever
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Alone Bondage Liberation Mind
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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Bamboo Important Path Reach Realize Rope
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Bondage Free Freedom God Mind Son Soul
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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God Mad Thing World
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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Alone Heart Knowledge Mind Negation Purify True
The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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Attain Desire Dharma God Subtle Trace Truth Trying Way
There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Inside Jar Outside Water
The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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Again Fall Hardly Old Possession Sin Water
So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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Faith Flower Honey Hover Peace Portal Sweetness Tasted
A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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Fall Ganges Man Tree Undoubtedly Water

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