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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.

Ramakrishna

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
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Catch Determination Grace Persistence Sail
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Brain Desire Devotional Energy Practice Practise Wasting
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
If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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God Ideal Meditate Nature Night Quire Thinking
One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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Attitude Dispute Faith Maintain Religious Respect towards
As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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Boy Failing Fall Fear Fixing Perform Pillar Whirl Worldly
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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Depth Heart Herat Holy Immerse Love Ocean Overflowing Sure
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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Bright Fall Heart Mam Mirror Reflect Sunlight Surface
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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Agent Embodied God Man People State True
Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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Ahamkara Carry Egotism Man Perfect Slain Vitality
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
The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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Again Fall Hardly Old Possession Sin Water
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Aways Direction Heart Magnetic Man Needle North Ocean Vessel
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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God Ignorance Long Meditation Outside Separation
One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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Day One Pure Spirit Sudden

Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.

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