God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
RAMAKRISHNAMake 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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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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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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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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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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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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