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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

Ramakrishna

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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Adie Afterward Divine Mother Pleasure Them Throwing
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bird Live Mudfish Off Shake Spin Water Waterfowl
God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
RAMAKRISHNA

Form God Righteous Unrighteous
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
RAMAKRISHNA

Compassion Given Helpless Protect
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
RAMAKRISHNA

God Realize Realizing Telling Truth
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Before Behind Everywhere Expanse Imagine Jar Limitless Water
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Bondage Free Freedom God Mind Son Soul
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
Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Another.You Everyone Love One
When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
RAMAKRISHNA

Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Ascetic Forgiveness Nature True
As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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Boy Failing Fall Fear Fixing Perform Pillar Whirl Worldly
It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.
RAMAKRISHNA

Account Door Ego God Jumping Lie Lying Mansion Stump
Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Appeal Fast Hold Whichever
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
RAMAKRISHNA

Devote Distraction Money Practice Spiritual Year
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Ask Dawn God Heart Love Minded Pray Pumpkin Pure

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