The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
RAMAKRISHNAThe world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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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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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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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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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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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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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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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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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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