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The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

Ramakrishna

The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Always Bright Fish Live Mud Shiny Skin
They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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Action Do Good Replete Whatever
He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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Away Black Find Huge Obstacle Overcoming Pushing Stone Wearing Ton Trying
Great men have the nature of a child.
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Child Children Greatness Man Nature
Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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Before Behind Everywhere Expanse Imagine Jar Limitless Water
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.
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Bondage Free Freedom God Mind Son Soul
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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Appear Holy Indeed Man Smallest Stain Ugly White
So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Associate Dwells God Meet Most True Wicked
Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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Appear Divided Inside Outside Part Perceive Pot Water
No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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Back Come Holy Jump Man Old Shoulder Sin Sooner Water
It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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Bend Drawn Easy Escape God Hold Untrained Young
Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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Faith Guru Man Need Spiritual Succeed Word
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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Doe Good Himself Man Motive Selfish
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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Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain
All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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Certainty Exception Know Real Self
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Ego Flourishing Morning Root Sprout Thinking

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

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