"The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God."
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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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"God has created the world in play, as it were."
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"God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child's attraction for its mother, and the husband's attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him."
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"If one has faith, one has everything."
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"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."
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"Respect is heaven, respect is liberation."
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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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"I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama ."
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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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"The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away."
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"One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him."
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"With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions."
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"As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material."
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