Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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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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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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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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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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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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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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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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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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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If 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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It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
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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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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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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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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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