God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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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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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.
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Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
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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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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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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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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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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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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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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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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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That 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.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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