One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
RAMAKRISHNAForget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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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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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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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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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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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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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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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.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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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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