The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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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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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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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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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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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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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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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