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.
RAMAKRISHNAThe 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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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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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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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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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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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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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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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 noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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