Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
RAMAKRISHNAThen hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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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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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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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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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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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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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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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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