The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
RAMAKRISHNA
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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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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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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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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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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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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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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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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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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