When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
RAMAKRISHNASome drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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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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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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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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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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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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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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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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