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God is most manifest in Man/woman. Man/woman is also blessed with the sixth sense and the capability to crave for liberation from endless births and deaths. For this one has to realize the self.

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God’s grace is there forever for all. God does not discriminate between one living entity and the other. It depends on the living entity to make best use of it and this depends on one’s karma.  

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As has been mentioned before there is no dearth of ‘intellectuals’ who preach a lot but practice nothing themselves. This is because either it is too difficult for them or they are too lazy and laid back. Actually they themselves don’t believe what they preach. The best teacher is one who has applied his/her own teachings on himself/herself before teaching others.

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According to Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa:

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IIt  is easy to talk about religion, but difficult to practice it.

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The winds of grace are always blowing but you have to raise the sail. 

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God is present everywhere but he is most manifest in man/woman.

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Pray to god that your attachment to material things should get decreased with each passing moment.

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God is in all humans but humans themselves are not god.  

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Be mad in love for god.

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When the flower of devotion blooms in you, the bees(devotees) come to you uninvited.

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Just reading spiritual books and scriptures won’t suffice.

Like a swan which takes the milk and leaves the water, one should take only the truth and discard the make believe.

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But is not at all surprising that sooner or later the tormentors themselves fall into the very grave that they had been digging for others for so long.

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There is an adage ‘Beware the person who prays in public..’. There are several frauds and pseudo intellectuals who because of their false ego make a false show of superiority to impress the gullible. These include those who make a show of indignation to find faults and criticize others. It is quite possible that they are doing this to desperately hide their own material weaknesses.

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You as the superior material energy are supposed to struggle and face stumbling blocks which would not only correct you but will prove as a lesson to the other entities thereby making this material world a better place to live in, with an accepted harmony between the inferior energy, the superior energy and a permutation and combination of both.

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One should remember that the material world is god’s inferior energy and that the living entity is his superior energy. There is a constant tussle between the two.

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When you surrender to god unconditionally god takes over immediately as your spiritual guide. Now you are completely in his hands. Because god is your teacher residing with you as super soul within the body, he knows full well how to use your soul to guide your material body.

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There are various instances where the public under the guise of ‘ A well wisher’ tried to poison the ears of gullible victims of circumstances with its callous & unwanted advice, with scant regard for the victims’ feelings thus raining them mercilessly with its own cooked up ‘expert opinions and unwanted advice.’ 

Time and again it was  proved wrong by the same victims thanks to their personal endeavor, will power and god’s grace.

That is why it is said ‘The taste of the pudding is in the eating.’

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Sardinian Strongman Steve Columbu got horribly injured in an accident. The doctors who conducted several operations on him gave expert comments that he would never be able to walk again.

Anyone in Steve’s position would have been quite disheartened on hearing this, but not he.

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Thanks to the grace of god which backed his own immense willpower Steve Columbu not only began to walk again, but he became a body builder, won the Mr. Olympia contest, acted in movies, made body building videos with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and is now a qualified, licensed and practicing chiropractor- ‘A REAL STRONGMAN’.

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There is no dearth of people who will vie with each other to give you their individual opinion and saddle you with unwanted advice.

However nothing will help you more than your own individual experience, study and hard work. A proverb ‘You will understand the pain only when you have a first hand experience’ holds true to all of us.

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God is equal to all living entities. He gives everyone the chance to bloom like a lotus from amidst the swamps. One just has to surrender oneself to god unconditionally.

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The examples are many. According to Sriyukteshwara Giri the Gyan Avtar, every soul has had its share of ups and downs and dark secrets.

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Past is past and it cannot be changed. But every living entity has the power and capability of shaping one’s future.

Maharishi Valmiki had once been a dacoit.

Thirumanjai Alwar had once been a highway robber.

Swami Pranabananda was a regular user of Charas(a drug like opium).

Gautam Buddha was supposed to have been born as an anaconda once.

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As per Sri Aurovindo Ghosh the soul among these multifarious living entities which is pure, god loving and devoted will get an opportunity to see the divine light.

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The soul is supposed to be pure but looks tainted because of the body that envelops it.

Though the souls in each living entity are actually sparks of the supreme whole, yet because of the individual karma and thoughts of all the bodies viz. a tree, a worm, a carnivorous beast, a herbivorous beast, a reptile, a bird, a fish, a thief, a murderer, a cop, a lawyer, a philosopher, a poet, and a monk, they form an individuality and look different.

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When you are alone, you delve within yourself. You would be surprised to find how strong, energetic, confident, intelligent, capable and talented you are.

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Solitude has been recommended to all those who crave for self realization and liberation from repeated birth and death.

Even you would have experienced that you are able to work better when you are left alone without any interference from others.

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However anyone who uses his/her intelligence to think about god all the time can control the mind finally. And when the mind goes silent the truth is revealed to the living entity.

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According to Swami Chinmayananda the mind is an incredibly forceful instrument which is next to impossible to control. It can agitate a person even when he/she is alone.

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A person is what he/she is born as based on his/her past karma.  But the present experiences, thoughts, work etc. have an effect on his/her psyche. And that makes him/her what he/she becomes.

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The living entity is nothing but a potpourri of his/her karma/experiences from his/her past lives and his/her actions/ experiences/ ideas in the present life. These are in turn based on the recordings by the soul of the past karma/experiences and the super imposition of the present deeds of the living entity on them.

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True knowledge is what you are and what you become ultimately after using the original stage as the substratum. Swami Vivekananda has already said that you are judged by your thoughts.

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Swami Sri Aurovindo ghosh has made the following famous quotes:

1.  True knowledge is what you are and what you become.

2.  When the mind is still then in that silence truth is revealed.

3.  God sweetly suffers all. He should be loved.

4.  You are the strongest when you are alone.

5.  Only one whose soul is pure can walk in light.

6.  The afternoons of future are better than past dawns.

7.  Experience is far better than opinions and idle talk.

8.  The world gets perfected after you experience stumbling blocks.

9.  Never trust someone who is indignantly righteous.  

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God is divine. He is present as super soul in all of us. Further we are his spiritual spark. The spark from fire is nothing but fire albeit in a smaller quantity.

Forgetfulness of one’s true identity is the main cause of all bondage. We should not only remember this but also enlighten others about this. When all are repeatedly fed with this idea, it will slowly but surely become an ideal with them to live for.

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For once you begin seeing god everywhere, including inside all living entities. Everyone begins looking like a part of him. Just like you have your set of plus and minus points, others too have their own.

This is the stage of realization.

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Once this stage is reached, you start shedding your identity as a separate individual living entity. You at last realize that you are just a miniscule part of the supreme spiritual whole which is present everywhere as the localized form of god ie. Paramatma.

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Once you reach the stage of ego, you slowly begin progressing towards god. It is here that you begin realizing that you are nothing but just a spark out of the eternal fire. This stage of identification is called super ego.

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When you remember that you are not this body but that you are a soul, you come into the stage of ego. For time immemorial you had been living in a false ego by identifying with this transient body.

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When you remember that you are not this body but that you are a soul, you come into the stage of ego. For time immemorial you had been living in a false ego by identifying with this transient body.