God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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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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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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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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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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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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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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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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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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