Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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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.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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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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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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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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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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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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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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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?
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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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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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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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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The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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