If you want to go east, don’t go west.
RAMAKRISHNAAs long as I live, so long do I learn.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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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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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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