When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
RAMAKRISHNAYou see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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The 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
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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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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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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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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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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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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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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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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