You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
RAMAKRISHNAA devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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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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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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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’.
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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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So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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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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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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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 truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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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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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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