God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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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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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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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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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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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges.
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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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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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