Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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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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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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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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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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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So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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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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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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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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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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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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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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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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The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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