What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
RAMAKRISHNAWhat is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
RAMAKRISHNANo sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
RAMAKRISHNAOne cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
RAMAKRISHNAI have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
RAMAKRISHNAMan suffers through lack of faith in God.
RAMAKRISHNAThe 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!
RAMAKRISHNAIt is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
RAMAKRISHNAMany people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
RAMAKRISHNATake 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.
RAMAKRISHNAAll 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.
RAMAKRISHNAThe fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
RAMAKRISHNAThe physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
RAMAKRISHNADo not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
RAMAKRISHNAHe is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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