There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
RAMAKRISHNAThe supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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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 breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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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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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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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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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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