It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
RAMAKRISHNAThe Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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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 winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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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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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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