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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Ramakrishna

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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Creed Different God Path Reach
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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Day God Heaven Ignorance Say Therefore
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Brain Desire Devotional Energy Practice Practise Wasting
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Allow Doe Evil God Plot Thicken World
The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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Fool Guilt Night
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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Devotee Essential Exist God Long Running Vanity
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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Doe Good Himself Man Motive Selfish
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
The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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Doe Ego Water Waxem Belong
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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Bend Drawn Easy Escape God Hold Untrained Young
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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Allah Brahman Christian God Krishna Lake Name People Siva
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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Discipline God Good Impart Power Raise Spiritual
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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Beautiful Divine Dwell Hold Man Ugly Wicked
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
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Essential God God Love Unemployed Unreal
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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Ask Dawn God Heart Love Minded Pray Pumpkin Pure

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