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.
RAMAKRISHNAYou too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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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 same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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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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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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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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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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