One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
RAMAKRISHNADo 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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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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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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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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So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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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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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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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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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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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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God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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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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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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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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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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