Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
RAMAKRISHNAOne should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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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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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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