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.
RAMAKRISHNAIf you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
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All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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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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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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