So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
RAMAKRISHNATry to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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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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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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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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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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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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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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