A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
RAMAKRISHNAUnless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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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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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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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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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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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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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.
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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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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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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.
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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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