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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

Ramakrishna

It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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Enough God Infinite Opinion Sincere Yearning
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Aways Direction Heart Magnetic Man Needle North Ocean Vessel
One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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Attitude Dispute Faith Maintain Religious Respect towards
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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Book Hearing Knowledge Reading Thinking Understanding
One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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Day One Pure Spirit Sudden
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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Faith Guru Man Need Spiritual Succeed Word
Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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God Grow Heart Love Selfless
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Ego Flourishing Morning Root Sprout Thinking
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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Bright Fall Heart Mam Mirror Reflect Sunlight Surface
There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Inside Jar Outside Water
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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Attain Knowledge Land m Divine Pride Rid Water
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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Beautiful Black Blue Case Colour Man Pillow Third
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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Attain Borm Cultivate Divine God Human Being Love Trying
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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Down Heaven Ocean Rain Receive Thimble
He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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Dwell Ego God Long Possible
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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Agent Embodied God Man People State True

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