When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
RAMAKRISHNAOne must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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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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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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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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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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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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