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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.

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Do yourself what you wish others to do.

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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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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. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.

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At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

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As long as I live, so long do I learn.

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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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How long do small girls play with their dolls? As long as they are not married and do not live with their husbands. After marriage they put the dolls away in a box. What further need is there of worshipping the image after the vision of God?

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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.

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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .

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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

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If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

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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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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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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.

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