Ramakrishna on bamboo
Ramakrishna179 quotes“God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.”
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
RamakrishnaRamakrishna That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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More on bamboo
A physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.
Ben AaronovitchBen Aaronovitch The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
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