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.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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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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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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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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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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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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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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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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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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