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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

Ramakrishna

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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Faith Guru Man Need Spiritual Succeed Word
So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Associate Dwells God Meet Most True Wicked
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
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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Another Blue God Grace Heart Selfless Talking Work
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
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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Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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Approached Hypocrite Infinite May Name
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
Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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Diversity Ignorance Knowledge Unity
One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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Attitude Dispute Faith Maintain Religious Respect towards
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Achieve Everything Faith Person
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Attachment Expectation Reward Work
Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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Good Grain Lift Man May Men Pious Sand Sugar Together
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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Dwell Enter God Home Lying Prayer Search Searching Spiritual
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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God Inspirational Man Suffer Suffering
God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Form God Righteous Unrighteous

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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