All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
RAMAKRISHNASo long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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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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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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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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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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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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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize 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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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 keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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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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