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God has created the world in play, as it were.

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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

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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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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

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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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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.

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Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.

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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

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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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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.

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

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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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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

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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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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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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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