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.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen 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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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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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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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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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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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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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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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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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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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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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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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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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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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