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?
RAMAKRISHNAHe 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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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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Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of 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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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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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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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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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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