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The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .

Ramakrishna

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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Afraid Alone Anger Arise Desire Lust
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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Down Heaven Ocean Rain Receive Thimble
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Attain. Appear Bad Distinction Divine Good High Low Vision
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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Bright Fall Heart Mam Mirror Reflect Sunlight Surface
Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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Alone Guide Guru Universe
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Goat Head Man Perfect Serve Struggle Time Trunk
All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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Certainty Exception Know Real Self
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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Automatic Develop Drop Flower Humility Own Petal Spiritual Wisdom
Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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God Grow Heart Love Selfless
In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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Attractive Beginning Consequence Pleasure Terrible World
There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Inside Jar Outside Water
The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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Bliss Covered Ignorance Indeed Obscured
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Body Disease House Soul Tax Tenant
One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Enter Jumping Mansion Over Stump
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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Bird Live Mudfish Off Shake Spin Water Waterfowl

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