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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

Ramakrishna

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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Agent Embodied God Man People State True
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Compassion Given Helpless Protect
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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Allah Brahman Christian God Krishna Lake Name People Siva
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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Blow Grace Need Sail Set Time Wind
One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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God Realize Realizing Telling Truth
Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Another.You Everyone Love One
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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Down Heaven Ocean Rain Receive Thimble
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
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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Bless Block God Hero Householder Indeed Prayer Real
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
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Attachment Expectation Reward Work
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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Lecture Merely Persistence Practice Real Use
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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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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Benares Different Hearing Reading
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Goat Head Man Perfect Serve Struggle Time Trunk
The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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Constant Death Impermanent Remember Should World

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