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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.

Ramakrishna

Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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Continous Meditation Mind Neglect State Time Worship
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Aways Direction Heart Magnetic Man Needle North Ocean Vessel
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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Agent Embodied God Man People State True
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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God Soul Speak Truth Unless
The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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Doe Ego Water Waxem Belong
Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Appeal Fast Hold Whichever
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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Associate Dwells God Meet Most True Wicked
The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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Blowing Grace Inspirational Raise Sail Wind
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
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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Bamboo Bent Easy Force Grown Heart
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
Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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Acquired Child Divine Forget Knowledge Wisdom Worldly
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 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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Bamboo Climb Reach Rope Stair Stone Wooden
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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Another Call Drink Other Pani Place Some Water
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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Another Blue God Grace Heart Selfless Talking Work

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