When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
RAMAKRISHNAThe less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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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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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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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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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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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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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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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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