The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
RAMAKRISHNAThe less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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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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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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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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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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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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First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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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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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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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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