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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

Ramakrishna

All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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Certainty Exception Know Real Self
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Achieve Everything Faith Person
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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Book Hearing Knowledge Reading Thinking Understanding
Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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Faith God Lack Man Suffer Suffering
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
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
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Learn Live Long
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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Always Blowing Grace Raise Sail Wind
That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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Alone Certain Faith False Good Head
It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
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Fall God Religion River Sea True Way
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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God Mad Thing World
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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Lecture Merely Persistence Practice Real Use
God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Form God Righteous Unrighteous
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Allow Doe Evil God Plot Thicken World
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Difficult Easy Practice Religion Talk
If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
RAMAKRISHNA

Fiber Needle Slight Sticking Succeed Thread Trying

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