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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

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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 waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.

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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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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth. One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion, allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.

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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind 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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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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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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The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

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Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

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Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

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It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

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Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

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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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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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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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