The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
RAMAKRISHNAThe breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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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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The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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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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There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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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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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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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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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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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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