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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

In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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Beloved Eye Happiness Loer Love Mutual Own Towards
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
They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Action Conscious Doer Fully God Servant
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Body Disease House Soul Tax Tenant
The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Jal Pani Religious Same Thing Water
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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Attain Birth Born Difficult Doe God Human Realizing
All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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Certainty Exception Know Real Self
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Believe Discard Mixture Non-Believe Positive Truth World
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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Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain
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.
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Account Door Ego God Jumping Lie Lying Mansion Stump
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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Book Hearing Knowledge Reading Thinking Understanding
I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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Different Form God Human Mainfiesting People Realization Saint Stage Walking
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
Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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Awareness Evil False Love Move Moving Spiritual
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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God Liberal Meal Morning Noon Real Realize Self
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
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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Appear Holy Indeed Man Smallest Stain Ugly White
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
It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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Enough God Infinite Opinion Sincere Yearning
It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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Dispute Drink Man Nectar Noiselessly Quarrels
Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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Creed Different God Path Reach
Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Appeal Fast Hold Whichever
Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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Benares Different Hearing Reading
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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Belongs God Himself Laugh Man Mine Side Universe Yours
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
But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Again Bind Sufficient World
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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Bee Bloom Cultivation Flower Inspirational Uninvited

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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