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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Ramakrishna

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
RAMAKRISHNA

God Man Manifest Serve Worship Worshipping
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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Afraid Alone Anger Arise Desire Lust
The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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Attain Desire Dharma God Subtle Trace Truth Trying Way
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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God Ignorance Long Meditation Outside Separation
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
RAMAKRISHNA

Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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Different Fall Flow God Reach Religion Religious River Sea True
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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Aspirant Boat Live Spiritual Stay Water World
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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Bamboo Bent Easy Force Grown Heart
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. .
RAMAKRISHNA

Eye Highest Kind Love Lover Mind Mutual Selfish Unselfish
One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Enter Jumping Mansion Over Stump
Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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Ahamkara Carry Egotism Man Perfect Slain Vitality
All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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Certainty Exception Know Real Self
So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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Faith Flower Honey Hover Peace Portal Sweetness Tasted
When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bend Ego Fruit Gradually Humility Laden Own Spiritual Tree Vanish
One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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Alone Mean Path Realized Religion Right Thinking
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bee Bloom Cultivation Flower Inspirational Uninvited

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