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It 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.

Ramakrishna

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Child Children Illumination Knowledge Long Simple Worldly
The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
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Court Gem Outer Pearl Precious Richest Scattered Stone
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Achieve Everything Faith Person
That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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Borrow Crowded Mind Over Studying
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
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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Attain Encumbered Inspirational Kind Knowledge Learning People Self Two
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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Brain Desire Devotional Energy Practice Practise Wasting
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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Book Deep Dive Essence God Learn Need Order Realize
Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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Faith Guru Man Need Spiritual Succeed Word
If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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Belong Business Care Error God Religion World
It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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Bend Drawn Easy Escape God Hold Untrained Young
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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Heaven Ignorance Night Rise Sky Star Sun
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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Form God Righteous Saint Sinner Unrighteous
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
God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Form God Righteous Unrighteous
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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Bagful Common Grain Little Man Religion Speak Wise

It 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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