One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
RAMAKRISHNAThe Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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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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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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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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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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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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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 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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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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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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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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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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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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