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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;

Ramakrishna

The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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Collect Down Egotism God Grant High Mound Run Water
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 fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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Appear Blossom Fruit God Love Ritual
Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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Attachment Bliss Eternal Ignorance Indeed Knowledge Meditate
The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Cultivate Goal Human Life Purpose Supreme
One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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Alone Mean Path Realized Religion Right Thinking
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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Fall God Religion River Sea True Way
God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Form God Righteous Unrighteous
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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Form God Righteous Saint Sinner Unrighteous
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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Ask Dawn God Heart Love Minded Pray Pumpkin Pure
There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
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Eye Highest Kind Love Lover Mind Mutual Selfish Unselfish
The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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Attain Desire Dharma God Subtle Trace Truth Trying Way
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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Ego Fire Piece Retain Rope Supreme
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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Adie Afterward Divine Mother Pleasure Them Throwing
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
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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Baked Broken Fire Ignorance Man Mud New One Potter

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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