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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.

Ramakrishna

Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
RAMAKRISHNA

Attachment Bliss Eternal Ignorance Indeed Knowledge Meditate
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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Dwell Enter God Home Lying Prayer Search Searching Spiritual
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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Allah Brahman Christian God Krishna Lake Name People Siva
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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Book Hearing Knowledge Reading Thinking Understanding
A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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Attitude LeadingTruth Maintain Man Path Religious
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
But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Again Bind Sufficient World
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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Bless Block God Hero Householder Indeed Prayer Real
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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Afraid Alone Anger Arise Desire Lust
That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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Alone Certain Faith False Good Head
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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Beloved Eye Happiness Loer Love Mutual Own Towards
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Attachment Comfort God Name Pray
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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God Inspirational Man Suffer Suffering
God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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Humility Pride Realized Slighest Trace
Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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Equal Faith Liberty Opinion Own

Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.

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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.

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