If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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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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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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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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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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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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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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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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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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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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