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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

Ramakrishna

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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Bagful Common Grain Little Man Religion Speak Wise
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
Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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Awareness Evil False Love Move Moving Spiritual
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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Doe Good Himself Man Motive Selfish
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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Discipline Good Mean Small Spiritual Thing Work World
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Essential God God Love Unemployed Unreal
Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
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Book Essence God Harm Important Learning Scripture Study
The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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Again Fall Hardly Old Possession Sin Water
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
God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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Answer Deep Heart Hidden Philosopher Prayer Stone True
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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Attain Borm Cultivate Divine God Human Being Love Trying
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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Bamboo Climb Reach Rope Stair Stone Wooden
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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Devote Distraction Money Practice Spiritual Year
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

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