The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
RAMAKRISHNAIf you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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This 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!’
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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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