A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
RAMAKRISHNAYou 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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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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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.
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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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