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 truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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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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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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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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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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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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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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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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