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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.

Ramakrishna

The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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Bliss Covered Ignorance Indeed Obscured
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
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Ego Flourishing Morning Root Sprout Thinking
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Catch Determination Grace Persistence Sail
Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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Another Blue God Grace Heart Selfless Talking Work
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
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
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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Dwell Enter God Home Lying Prayer Search Searching Spiritual
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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Lecture Merely Persistence Practice Real Use
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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Agent Embodied God Man People State True
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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Appear Blossom Fruit God Love Ritual
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
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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Account Door Ego God Jumping Lie Lying Mansion Stump
There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
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Eye Highest Kind Love Lover Mind Mutual Selfish Unselfish
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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Appear Holy Indeed Man Smallest Stain Ugly White
The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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Fool Guilt Night
The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
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Court Gem Outer Pearl Precious Richest Scattered Stone
The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Always Bright Fish Live Mud Shiny Skin
The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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Blowing Grace Inspirational Raise Sail Wind
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
As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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Boy Failing Fall Fear Fixing Perform Pillar Whirl Worldly
Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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Benares Different Hearing Reading
One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Enter Jumping Mansion Over Stump
God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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Answer Deep Heart Hidden Philosopher Prayer Stone True
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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Adie Afterward Divine Mother Pleasure Them Throwing
But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Again Bind Sufficient World
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

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