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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.

Ramakrishna

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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Goat Head Man Perfect Serve Struggle Time Trunk
Great men have the nature of a child.
RAMAKRISHNA

Child Children Greatness Man Nature
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
RAMAKRISHNA

Achieve Everything Faith Person
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Fool Guilt Night
Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
RAMAKRISHNA

Another Call Drink Other Pani Place Some Water
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
RAMAKRISHNA

Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
RAMAKRISHNA

Assert Bound Conviction Freed Mind Strong
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Ego Fire Piece Retain Rope Supreme
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bird Live Mudfish Off Shake Spin Water Waterfowl
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
RAMAKRISHNA

God Inspirational Man Suffer Suffering
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
RAMAKRISHNA

God Man Manifest Serve Worship Worshipping
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
RAMAKRISHNA

Body Disease House Soul Tax Tenant
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
RAMAKRISHNA

Blow Grace Need Sail Set Time Wind
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
RAMAKRISHNA

Alone Heart Knowledge Mind Negation Purify True
The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
RAMAKRISHNA

Doe Ego Water Waxem Belong

You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.

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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.

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