Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
RAMAKRISHNAAll will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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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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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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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.
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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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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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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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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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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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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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