Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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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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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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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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So 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.
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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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