If you want to go east, don’t go west.
RAMAKRISHNAMeditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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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
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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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.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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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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