You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
RAMAKRISHNABhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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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.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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