If you want to go east, don’t go west.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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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.
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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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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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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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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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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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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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