A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
RAMAKRISHNAIn the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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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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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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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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