The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
RAMAKRISHNATo work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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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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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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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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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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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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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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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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