If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
RAMAKRISHNABut it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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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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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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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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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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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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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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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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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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