The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
RAMAKRISHNAThe fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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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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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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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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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.
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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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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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