Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
RAMAKRISHNAThe 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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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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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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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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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.
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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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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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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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