Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
RAMAKRISHNAIt noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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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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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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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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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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