If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
RAMAKRISHNAThe jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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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.
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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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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.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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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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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.
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