One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
RAMAKRISHNAIf you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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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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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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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 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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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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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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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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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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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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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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