Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
RAMAKRISHNAThey are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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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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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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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.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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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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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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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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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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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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You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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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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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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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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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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First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
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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 Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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