When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
RAMAKRISHNAForgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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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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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
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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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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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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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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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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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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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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