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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

Ramakrishna

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Believe Discard Mixture Non-Believe Positive Truth World
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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Attain Knowledge Land m Divine Pride Rid Water
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
The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Cultivate Goal Human Life Purpose Supreme
You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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Differences Different Digestion Taste Temperament
The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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Collect Down Egotism God Grant High Mound Run Water
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Attain. Appear Bad Distinction Divine Good High Low Vision
He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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Dwell Ego God Long Possible
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Ego Flourishing Morning Root Sprout Thinking
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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Book Good Many Reading Religious Saying
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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Down Heaven Ocean Rain Receive Thimble
When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain
You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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Being Dwell God Love Everyone
Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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Case Immersed Infinite Inside Long Ocean Two Water
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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Diversity Ignorance Knowledge Unity

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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