When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
RAMAKRISHNAThe fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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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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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
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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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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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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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