If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
RAMAKRISHNAThe Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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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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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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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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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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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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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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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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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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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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There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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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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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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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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The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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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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