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The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!

Ramakrishna

Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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Diversity Ignorance Knowledge Unity
A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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Attitude LeadingTruth Maintain Man Path Religious
The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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Ego God Keep Knowledge Long Love True Ultimately
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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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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Bend Great Lowly Meek Motivational Tree Wish
The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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Both Consciousness Inside Jnani Nothing Outside Paramatman Pot
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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Good Grain Lift Man May Men Pious Sand Sugar Together
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
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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Bamboo Important Path Reach Realize Rope
God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Form God Righteous Unrighteous
One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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Disappear Exist Feel Long Remain
Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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Another Call Drink Other Pani Place Some Water
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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Ask Dawn God Heart Love Minded Pray Pumpkin Pure
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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Faith Flower Honey Hover Peace Portal Sweetness Tasted
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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Bamboo Bent Easy Force Grown Heart
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

The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!

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The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!

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