The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
RAMAKRISHNAYou 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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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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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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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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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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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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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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If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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