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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

Ramakrishna

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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Aspirant Boat Live Spiritual Stay Water World
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Ascetic Forgiveness Nature True
A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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Fall Ganges Man Tree Undoubtedly Water
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Bondage Free Freedom God Mind Son Soul
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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Bagful Common Grain Little Man Religion Speak Wise
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Alone Bondage Liberation Mind
It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
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Fall God Religion River Sea True Way
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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Alone Heart Knowledge Mind Negation Purify True
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Essential God God Love Unemployed Unreal
God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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Boy Brother God Laugh Mother Occasion Patient Physician
If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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Conclude Divide Doe Healing Pearl Sea
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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Die Ego End Over Trouble
So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Child Children Illumination Knowledge Long Simple Worldly
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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Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Attain. Appear Bad Distinction Divine Good High Low Vision
Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Appeal Fast Hold Whichever

He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

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