Great men have the nature of a child.
RAMAKRISHNAOnce a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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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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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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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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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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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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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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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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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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