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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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Dispute Drink Man Nectar Noiselessly Quarrels
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Difficult Easy Practice Religion Talk
The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Jal Pani Religious Same Thing Water
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
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
Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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Equal Faith Liberty Opinion Own
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Catch Determination Grace Persistence Sail
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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Bird Live Mudfish Off Shake Spin Water Waterfowl
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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Devotee Essential Exist God Long Running Vanity
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 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
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Ascetic Forgiveness Nature True
The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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Constant Death Impermanent Remember Should World
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
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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Different Form God Human Mainfiesting People Realization Saint Stage Walking
It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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Enough God Infinite Opinion Sincere Yearning

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

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