Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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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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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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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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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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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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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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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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