Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
RAMAKRISHNAThey are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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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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One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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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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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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