The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
RAMAKRISHNAThe fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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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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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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