Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
RAMAKRISHNASugar 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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Make 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.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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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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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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