The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
RAMAKRISHNAThe breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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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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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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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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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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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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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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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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