Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
RAMAKRISHNAAfter that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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The 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!
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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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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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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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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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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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