Do 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.
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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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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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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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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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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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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