It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
RAMAKRISHNAIt is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
RAMAKRISHNASo when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
RAMAKRISHNAThe winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
RAMAKRISHNAThe young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
RAMAKRISHNACommon men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
RAMAKRISHNAGod is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
RAMAKRISHNAThe water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
RAMAKRISHNAYou must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
RAMAKRISHNADifferent people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
RAMAKRISHNAThe waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
RAMAKRISHNAThe physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
RAMAKRISHNAOne day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
RAMAKRISHNAGod in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
RAMAKRISHNAThis side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
RAMAKRISHNACan you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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