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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,

Ramakrishna

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
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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Faith Flower Honey Hover Peace Portal Sweetness Tasted
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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Lecture Merely Persistence Practice Real Use
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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Different Fall Flow God Reach Religion Religious River Sea True
So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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Again Die Fire Ignorance Knowledge Naked Person True Well
When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
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Bend Ego Fruit Gradually Humility Laden Own Spiritual Tree Vanish
One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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Fear Hatred Long Shame Spiritual
Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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Faith God Lack Man Suffer Suffering
He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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Nectar Peace Quite Tasted True Faith
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
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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Aspirant Boat Live Spiritual Stay Water World
The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Jal Pani Religious Same Thing Water
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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Case Immersed Infinite Inside Long Ocean Two Water
So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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Divine Equally Heart Impartially Light Man Receive
No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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Back Come Holy Jump Man Old Shoulder Sin Sooner Water
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Goat Head Man Perfect Serve Struggle Time Trunk

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