The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
RAMAKRISHNAOne must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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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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Pray 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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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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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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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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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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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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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.
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So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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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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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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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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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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