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.
RAMAKRISHNAForgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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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 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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If 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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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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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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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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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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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
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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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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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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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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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