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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.

Ramakrishna

So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Associate Dwells God Meet Most True Wicked
The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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Form God Meet People Saint Vicious Virtuous
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 Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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Bliss Covered Eternal Ignorance Indeed Obscured
You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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Being Dwell God Love Everyone
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
Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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Faith God Lack Man Suffer Suffering
He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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Dwell Ego God Long Possible
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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Discipline Good Mean Small Spiritual Thing Work World
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
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
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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Corner Forest Heart Meditation Quite Solitude
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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Confuse East Go Want West
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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Heaven Ignorance Night Rise Sky Star Sun
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
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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Ask Dawn God Heart Love Minded Pray Pumpkin Pure

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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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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