The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
RAMAKRISHNAAll religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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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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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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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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When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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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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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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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.
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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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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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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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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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