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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.

Ramakrishna

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
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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Body Disease House Soul Tax Tenant
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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Fall God Religion River Sea True Way
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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Heaven Ignorance Night Rise Sky Star Sun
You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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Bamboo Climb Reach Rope Stair Stone Wooden
Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Appeal Fast Hold Whichever
God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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God Going Himself Laugh Life Man Other Save Say Take
All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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Certainty Exception Know Real Self
First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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Discipline God Good Impart Power Raise Spiritual
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Achieve Everything Faith Person
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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Ahamkara Carry Egotism Man Perfect Slain Vitality
The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Jal Pani Religious Same Thing Water
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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Before Behind Everywhere Expanse Imagine Jar Limitless Water
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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Down Heaven Ocean Rain Receive Thimble
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.
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Bagful Common Grain Little Man Religion Speak Wise
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

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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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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