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.
RAMAKRISHNASo 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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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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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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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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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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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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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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