God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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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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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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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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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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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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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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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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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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