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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

Ramakrishna

The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
RAMAKRISHNA

Bliss Covered Ignorance Indeed Obscured
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Afraid Alone Anger Arise Desire Lust
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Fall Ganges Man Tree Undoubtedly Water
Do yourself what you wish others to do.
RAMAKRISHNA

Do Other Wish Yourself
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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Attractive Beginning Consequence Pleasure Terrible World
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Ask Dawn God Heart Love Minded Pray Pumpkin Pure
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Care Children Doll Fear Little Mother Play Restrain Running
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Case Immersed Infinite Inside Long Ocean Two Water
There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
RAMAKRISHNA

Eye Highest Kind Love Lover Mind Mutual Selfish Unselfish
Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
RAMAKRISHNA

Appeal Fast Hold Whichever
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bagful Common Grain Little Man Religion Speak Wise
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
RAMAKRISHNA

Allah Brahman Christian God Krishna Lake Name People Siva
But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
RAMAKRISHNA

Again Bind Sufficient World
Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
RAMAKRISHNA

Faith Guru Man Need Spiritual Succeed Word
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
RAMAKRISHNA

Blow Grace Need Sail Set Time Wind
It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
RAMAKRISHNA

Fall God Religion River Sea True Way

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