The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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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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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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A 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.
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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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