The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
RAMAKRISHNAThe less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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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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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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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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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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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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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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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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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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