Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
RAMAKRISHNAKnowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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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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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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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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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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