Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
RAMAKRISHNADisease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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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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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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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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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.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.
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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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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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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 winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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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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