They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
RAMAKRISHNAAn ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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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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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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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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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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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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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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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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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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