If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
RAMAKRISHNAHe whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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