Tulsidas Quotes

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To follow the path of knowledge is to tread on the edge of a sword.
Once you get into it, there is no escape.

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He walks without legs,
hears without ears,
does all the deeds without hands.
He enjoys all the juices without a mouth,
spells all the truth without a voice,
touches everything without hands.
He see very object without eyes
and inhales all the scents without a breath.

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Mother and father abandoned me at birth and the author of my life also did not write any worth or merit on the page of destiny.

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I begged for crumbs and morsels door to door... Plodding and doddling around lanes.

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No virtue is equal to the good of others and
no vice greater than hurting others.

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Unless one cultivates slave-master relationship with the Lord,
No one can go across the ocean of this material world.
Who is as virtuous a master as Rama?
And who is as vicious as I am?

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I call him Rama. You can call him by any other name but have faith in him, surrender all worldy desires and passions to his will and without effort, become disciplined and principled.

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God refuses to be mine,
thine or his.
For him the truth is but one
but the proud and the vain have forged many out of their desires and fancies.

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There is no difference between knowledge and devotion,
Both of them save the soul from the miseries of worldly life.

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Faith is that which dispels desire,
Devotion is that which generates knowledge.
And Vedas say that knowledge is that which fashions freedom.

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The story of Ramachandra, as narrated in the Valmiki Ramayan and the Adhyatma Ramayan, after reinforcing and revitalizing it with the essence of whatever the Puranas, the Vedas, and other scriptures could give, I, Tulsidas, am writing for the delight of my own soul.

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In dependence, there is no happiness, even in a dream.

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Faith in the Creator, who is mainly in his Godness and Godly in his man-ness, is like a human-self and can take him along.

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The world knows that to quell the belly-fire, I ate crumbs and morsels given by men of caste, high-caste, low-caste or no cast.

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What did I not do, where did I not go, to whom did I not bow.

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Am a servant of Rama,
Accredited to His Court,
What for should I
Be a Courier of man?

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