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/ page 1063 of 1205 /God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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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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Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. 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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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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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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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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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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When 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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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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