Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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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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When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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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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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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