When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
RAMAKRISHNAGod 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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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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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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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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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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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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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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