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At A Certain Stage In The Path Of Devotion, The Devotee Finds Satisfaction In God With Form, And At Another Stage, In God Without It.

It Is Very Pleasant To Scratch An Itching Ring-worm, But The Sensation One Gets Afterwards Is Very Painful And Intolerable. In The Same Way The Pleasures Of This World Are Very Attractive In The Beginning, But Their Consequences Are Terrible To Contemplate And Hard To Endure.

As A Piece Of Rope, When Burnt, Retains Its Form, But Cannot Serve To Bind, So Is The Ego Which Is Burnt By The Fire Of Supreme Knowledge.

If You First Fortify Yourself With The True Knowledge Of The Universal Self, And Then Live In The Midst Of Wealth And Worldliness, Surely They Will In No Way Affect You.

What Is The Use Of Merely Listening To Lectures? The Real Thing Is Practice.