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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

Ramakrishna

There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Inside Jar Outside Water
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Body Disease House Soul Tax Tenant
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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Bamboo Bent Easy Force Grown Heart
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Ego Flourishing Morning Root Sprout Thinking
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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Goat Head Man Perfect Serve Struggle Time Trunk
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Learn Live Long
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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Attain Birth Born Difficult Doe God Human Realizing
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Difficult Easy Practice Religion Talk
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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Attain Borm Cultivate Divine God Human Being Love Trying
The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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Doe Ego Water Waxem Belong
The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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Ego God Keep Knowledge Long Love True Ultimately
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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Book Hearing Knowledge Reading Thinking Understanding
Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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Acquired Child Divine Forget Knowledge Wisdom Worldly
If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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Devote Distraction Money Practice Spiritual Year
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
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

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

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