Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
RAMAKRISHNADwell, 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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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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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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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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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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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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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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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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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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