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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.

Ramakrishna

The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
RAMAKRISHNA

Always Bright Fish Live Mud Shiny Skin
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Learn Live Long
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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Agent Embodied God Man People State True
They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Action Conscious Doer Fully God Servant
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Ego Flourishing Morning Root Sprout Thinking
It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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Bend Drawn Easy Escape God Hold Untrained Young
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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Ask Dawn God Heart Love Minded Pray Pumpkin Pure
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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Lecture Merely Persistence Practice Real Use
So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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Divine Equally Heart Impartially Light Man Receive
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Essential God God Love Unemployed Unreal
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Brain Desire Devotional Energy Practice Practise Wasting
Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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Faith God Lack Man Suffer Suffering
One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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Alone Mean Path Realized Religion Right Thinking
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Ascetic Forgiveness Nature True
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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Beautiful Black Blue Case Colour Man Pillow Third
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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Aspirant Boat Live Spiritual Stay Water World

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