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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.

Ramakrishna

The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Appeal Fast Hold Whichever
One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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Attitude Dispute Faith Maintain Religious Respect towards
God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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God Going Himself Laugh Life Man Other Save Say Take
Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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Continous Meditation Mind Neglect State Time Worship
Man 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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Faith Guru Man Need Spiritual Succeed Word
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
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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Good Grain Lift Man May Men Pious Sand Sugar Together
So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Child Children Illumination Knowledge Long Simple Worldly
Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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Acquired Child Divine Forget Knowledge Wisdom Worldly
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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Form God Meet People Saint Vicious Virtuous
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
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
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Attachment Expectation Reward Work
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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God Ignorance Long Meditation Outside Separation
The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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Cloud Heart Light Long Ray Similarly Sun World

If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.

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