There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
RAMAKRISHNAYou should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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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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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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