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.
RAMAKRISHNAThis side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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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.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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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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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 diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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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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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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