A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen 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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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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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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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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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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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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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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