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.
RAMAKRISHNAThat is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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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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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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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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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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