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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

Ramakrishna

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
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
The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Cultivate Goal Human Life Purpose Supreme
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Attachment Expectation Reward Work
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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Allah Brahman Christian God Krishna Lake Name People Siva
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 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
The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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Doe Ego Water Waxem Belong
They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Action Conscious Doer Fully God Servant
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Ascetic Forgiveness Nature True
Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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Benares Different Hearing Reading
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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Aspirant Boat Live Spiritual Stay Water World
The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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Blowing Grace Inspirational Raise Sail Wind
Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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Another Call Drink Other Pani Place Some Water
Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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Do Other Wish Yourself
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Goat Head Man Perfect Serve Struggle Time Trunk

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