Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
RAMAKRISHNAIf you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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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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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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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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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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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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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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