Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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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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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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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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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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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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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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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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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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