He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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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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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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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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