If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
RAMAKRISHNAGod laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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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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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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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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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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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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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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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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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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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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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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