If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
RAMAKRISHNAMen 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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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.
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That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
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The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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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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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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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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God 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.
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