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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.

Ramakrishna

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Bondage Free Freedom God Mind Son Soul
So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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Faith Flower Honey Hover Peace Portal Sweetness Tasted
All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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Certainty Exception Know Real Self
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Ascetic Forgiveness Nature True
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Compassion Given Helpless Protect
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Attachment Comfort God Name Pray
So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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Directed God Herat Long Lost Man Ocean Towards Worldliness
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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Alone Certain Faith False Good Head
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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Acquired Child Divine Forget Knowledge Wisdom Worldly
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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Good Grain Lift Man May Men Pious Sand Sugar Together
The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
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Court Gem Outer Pearl Precious Richest Scattered Stone
God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Form God Righteous Unrighteous
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
But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Again Bind Sufficient World
The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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Collect Down Egotism God Grant High Mound Run Water
When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain

A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.

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