A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
RAMAKRISHNAThe compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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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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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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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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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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