Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
RAMAKRISHNAGod is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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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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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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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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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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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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