The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
RAMAKRISHNAThe Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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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 ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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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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Do 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.
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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 young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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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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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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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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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?
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