God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
RAMAKRISHNASo is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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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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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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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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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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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 magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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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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So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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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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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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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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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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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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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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