The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
RAMAKRISHNAOnce a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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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 magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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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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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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