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.
RAMAKRISHNAIf you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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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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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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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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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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