The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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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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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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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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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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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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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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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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