“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.”

—  Tulsidas

Tulsidas in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 36

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