God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
RAMAKRISHNAThat is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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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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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.
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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 breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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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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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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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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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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