Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
RAMAKRISHNAPray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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You 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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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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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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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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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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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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