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.
RAMAKRISHNAOne day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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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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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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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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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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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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