A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
RAMAKRISHNAGreat men have the nature of a child.
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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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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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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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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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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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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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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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