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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

Ramakrishna

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
RAMAKRISHNA

Another.You Everyone Love One
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
RAMAKRISHNA

Lecture Merely Persistence Practice Real Use
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Care Children Doll Fear Little Mother Play Restrain Running
Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
RAMAKRISHNA

Diversity Ignorance Knowledge Unity
The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
RAMAKRISHNA

Both Consciousness Inside Jnani Nothing Outside Paramatman Pot
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bear Malice Path Right Wrong
Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
RAMAKRISHNA

Case Immersed Infinite Inside Long Ocean Two Water
Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
RAMAKRISHNA

Day God Heaven Ignorance Say Therefore
Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
RAMAKRISHNA

Anyway Art Football Hear Praying
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bagful Common Grain Little Man Religion Speak Wise
First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
RAMAKRISHNA

Discipline God Good Impart Power Raise Spiritual
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’.
RAMAKRISHNA

Another Call Drink Other Pani Place Some Water
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bend Great Lowly Meek Motivational Tree Wish
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
RAMAKRISHNA

Attachment Comfort God Name Pray
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
RAMAKRISHNA

Allow Doe Evil God Plot Thicken World
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
RAMAKRISHNA

Devotee Essential Exist God Long Running Vanity

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