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The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.

Ramakrishna

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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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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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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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

The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.

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