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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.

Ramakrishna

Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Alone Bondage Liberation Mind
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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Heaven Ignorance Night Rise Sky Star Sun
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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Adie Afterward Divine Mother Pleasure Them Throwing
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
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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Automatic Develop Drop Flower Humility Own Petal Spiritual Wisdom
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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Ego Fire Piece Retain Rope Supreme
One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Enter Jumping Mansion Over Stump
If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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Conclude Divide Doe Healing Pearl Sea
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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God Realize Realizing Telling Truth
He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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Away Black Find Huge Obstacle Overcoming Pushing Stone Wearing Ton Trying
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
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Achieve Everything Faith Person
You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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Bear Malice Path Right Wrong
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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God Soul Speak Truth Unless
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Ascetic Forgiveness Nature True
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

By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.

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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.

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