If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
RAMAKRISHNAYou can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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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.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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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.
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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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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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