It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
RAMAKRISHNALive 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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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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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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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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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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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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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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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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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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