When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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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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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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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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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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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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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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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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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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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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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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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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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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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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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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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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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