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.
RAMAKRISHNAThe young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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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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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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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.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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