All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
RAMAKRISHNASpirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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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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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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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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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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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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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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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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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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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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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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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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