God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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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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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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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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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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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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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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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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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