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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.

Ramakrishna

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Essential God God Love Unemployed Unreal
The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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Ego God Keep Knowledge Long Love True Ultimately
In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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Beloved Eye Happiness Loer Love Mutual Own Towards
One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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Disappear Exist Feel Long Remain
Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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Benares Different Hearing Reading
He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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Dwell Ego God Long Possible
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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Bless Block God Hero Householder Indeed Prayer Real
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Attachment Expectation Reward Work
When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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Anywhere Earth Four Quater Religion Travel
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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Attain Birth Born Difficult Doe God Human Realizing
All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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Different Fall Flow God Reach Religion Religious River Sea True
Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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Anyway Art Football Hear Praying
It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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Faith In God Have Faith Real
So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Child Children Illumination Knowledge Long Simple Worldly
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Believe Discard Mixture Non-Believe Positive Truth World

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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