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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.

Ramakrishna

First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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Discipline God Good Impart Power Raise Spiritual
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Essential God God Love Unemployed Unreal
Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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Alone Guide Guru Universe
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
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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Lecture Merely Persistence Practice Real Use
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Alone Bondage Liberation Mind
Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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Anyway Art Football Hear Praying
It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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Faith In God Have Faith Real
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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Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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Baked Broken Fire Ignorance Man Mud New One Potter
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
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
God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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God Going Himself Laugh Life Man Other Save Say Take
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Attachment Expectation Reward Work
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

He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.

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