You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
RAMAKRISHNAMan 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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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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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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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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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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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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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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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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