After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
RAMAKRISHNAPray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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 Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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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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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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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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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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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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