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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Ramakrishna

It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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Enough God Infinite Opinion Sincere Yearning
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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Good Grain Lift Man May Men Pious Sand Sugar Together
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
One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Enter Jumping Mansion Over Stump
God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Form God Righteous Saint Sinner Unrighteous
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Achieve Everything Faith Person
After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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Book Deep Dive Essence God Learn Need Order Realize
God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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Boy Brother God Laugh Mother Occasion Patient Physician
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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Bear Malice Path Right Wrong
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
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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Appear Blossom Fruit God Love Ritual
The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Always Bright Fish Live Mud Shiny Skin
The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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Cloud Heart Light Long Ray Similarly Sun World
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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Approached Hypocrite Infinite May Name
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
Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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Equal Faith Liberty Opinion Own

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