One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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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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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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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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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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
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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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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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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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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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