When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
RAMAKRISHNAThe physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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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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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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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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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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