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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.

Ramakrishna

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
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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Allah Brahman Christian God Krishna Lake Name People Siva
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Achieve Everything Faith Person
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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Different Fall Flow God Reach Religion Religious River Sea True
When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
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Bend Ego Fruit Gradually Humility Laden Own Spiritual Tree Vanish
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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Borrow Crowded Mind Over Studying
That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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Alone Certain Faith False Good Head
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Brain Desire Devotional Energy Practice Practise Wasting
The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Cultivate Goal Human Life Purpose Supreme
So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Associate Dwells God Meet Most True Wicked
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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Approached Hypocrite Infinite May Name
If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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God Ideal Meditate Nature Night Quire Thinking
After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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Book Deep Dive Essence God Learn Need Order Realize
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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God Soul Speak Truth Unless
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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Bondage Free Freedom God Mind Son Soul
Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Appeal Fast Hold Whichever

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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