You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
RAMAKRISHNAThat knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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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 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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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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