In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
RAMAKRISHNAThe fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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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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When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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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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The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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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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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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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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