"When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.“


-Ramakrishna

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When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

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