Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
RAMAKRISHNAThe Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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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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Common 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.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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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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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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