Ramakrishna on infinite
Ramakrishna179 quotes“It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.”
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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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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More on infinite
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
QuintilianQuintilian He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
G. I. GurdjieffG. I. Gurdjieff Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
A. B. SimpsonA. B. Simpson People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.
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