To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
RAMAKRISHNAUnless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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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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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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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.
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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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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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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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
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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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You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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