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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.

Ramakrishna

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
RAMAKRISHNA

Doe Ego Water Waxem Belong
But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
RAMAKRISHNA

Again Bind Sufficient World
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
RAMAKRISHNA

Alone Bondage Liberation Mind
The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
RAMAKRISHNA

Brother Divide Forgetting God Land Laugh Master Physician Think
The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bamboo Bent Easy Force Grown Heart
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
RAMAKRISHNA

Afraid Alone Anger Arise Desire Lust
Great men have the nature of a child.
RAMAKRISHNA

Child Children Greatness Man Nature
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bright Fall Heart Mam Mirror Reflect Sunlight Surface
It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
RAMAKRISHNA

Animal Dwell Face God Tiger Wicked
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
RAMAKRISHNA

Down Heaven Ocean Rain Receive Thimble
We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
RAMAKRISHNA

Deer Effort Essence Laugh Laughing Musk Source
Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
RAMAKRISHNA

Acquired Child Divine Forget Knowledge Wisdom Worldly
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
RAMAKRISHNA

Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
RAMAKRISHNA

Book Essence God Harm Important Learning Scripture Study
Do yourself what you wish others to do.
RAMAKRISHNA

Do Other Wish Yourself
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
RAMAKRISHNA

Assert Bound Conviction Freed Mind Strong

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