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.
RAMAKRISHNAIt noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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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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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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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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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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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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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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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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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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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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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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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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One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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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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