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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.

Ramakrishna

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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Do Other Wish Yourself
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Allow Doe Evil God Plot Thicken World
It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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Faith In God Have Faith Real
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 supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Cultivate Goal Human Life Purpose Supreme
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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Differences Different Digestion Taste Temperament
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
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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Bamboo Bent Easy Force Grown Heart
The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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Brother Divide Forgetting God Land Laugh Master Physician Think
Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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Faith God Lack Man Suffer Suffering
One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Enter Jumping Mansion Over Stump
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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Ego Fire Piece Retain Rope Supreme
The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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Ego God Keep Knowledge Long Love True Ultimately
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
Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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Case Immersed Infinite Inside Long Ocean Two Water

The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.

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