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Can 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.

Ramakrishna

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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Good Grain Lift Man May Men Pious Sand Sugar Together
They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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Action Do Good Replete Whatever
You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bamboo Climb Reach Rope Stair Stone Wooden
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
RAMAKRISHNA

Lecture Merely Persistence Practice Real Use
Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
RAMAKRISHNA

Beautiful Black Blue Case Colour Man Pillow Third
The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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Both Consciousness Inside Jnani Nothing Outside Paramatman Pot
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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Bright Fall Heart Mam Mirror Reflect Sunlight Surface
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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Ego Fire Piece Retain Rope Supreme
Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
RAMAKRISHNA

Appear Divided Inside Outside Part Perceive Pot Water
He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
RAMAKRISHNA

Nectar Peace Quite Tasted True Faith
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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Blow Grace Need Sail Set Time Wind
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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Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
RAMAKRISHNA

Alone Heart Knowledge Mind Negation Purify True
If 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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Depth Heart Herat Holy Immerse Love Ocean Overflowing Sure
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
RAMAKRISHNA

Goat Head Man Perfect Serve Struggle Time Trunk
Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
RAMAKRISHNA

Alone Guide Guru Universe

Can 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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