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.
Ramakrishna
faith
If one has faith one has everything.
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
men
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.
mind
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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.
He who has realized God does not look upon a woman with the eye of lust; so he is not afraid of her. He perceives clearly that women are but so many aspects of the Divine Mother. He worships them all as the Mother Herself.
women
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
reading
Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.
progress wealth
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn
force
Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The I is the jar.
rights
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
wealth
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.
danger speed
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
travel
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
vision
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