All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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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God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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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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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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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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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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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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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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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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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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