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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.

Ramakrishna

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
RAMAKRISHNA

Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
RAMAKRISHNA

Enough God Infinite Opinion Sincere Yearning
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
RAMAKRISHNA

Difficult Easy Practice Religion Talk
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
RAMAKRISHNA

Form God Meet People Saint Vicious Virtuous
You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bamboo Climb Reach Rope Stair Stone Wooden
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
RAMAKRISHNA

Corner Forest Heart Meditation Quite Solitude
One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
RAMAKRISHNA

Enter Jumping Mansion Over Stump
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
RAMAKRISHNA

Learn Live Long
The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
RAMAKRISHNA

Both Consciousness Inside Jnani Nothing Outside Paramatman Pot
The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
RAMAKRISHNA

Cloud Heart Light Long Ray Similarly Sun World
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
RAMAKRISHNA

Fall God Religion River Sea True Way
The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
RAMAKRISHNA

Fool Guilt Night
First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
RAMAKRISHNA

Discipline God Good Impart Power Raise Spiritual
Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
RAMAKRISHNA

Awareness Evil False Love Move Moving Spiritual
You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
RAMAKRISHNA

Differences Different Digestion Taste Temperament
The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
RAMAKRISHNA

Always Bright Fish Live Mud Shiny Skin

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