So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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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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First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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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
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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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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